Backup Jobs fail with db and catalog errors...

[jpeterprarch]

Bizarre.  Backup Jobs are now failing with the catalog and db errors.  What makes this more strange is that there is plenty of free space with the catalogs stored on a disk array with 1.15 TB free.

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The job failed with the following error: An error occurred when writing to the Backup Exec database. A synthetic backup of this resource will not include the data backed up by this operation until the next full or incremental backup of this resource.

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Catalog Error
V-79-10000-10660 - An error was encountered writing to the on-disk catalogs.
A synthetic backup of this resource will not include the data backed up by this operation until the next full or incremental backup of this resource runs.

Thoughts?

[AmolB]

Hello

Rename the existing catalogs folder and create a new catalogs folder at the same

location and then run the backup jobs. Cataolgs folder is located at

X:\Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec.

[jpeterprarch]

OK but won't that effectively purge the catalog?

[Ken_Putnam · Accepted solution]

OK but won't that effectively purge the catalog?

Yes it will

You can force BackupExec to re-index it's catalog by following the procedure in 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH35390

[jpeterprarch]

Thanks for the link.  It appears the issue was a recent catalog file that was corrupt.  At first the catalog rebuild did not work until the offending catalog file was removed.  Deleting the *.xml and correpsonding *.fh catalog files from the backup job just prior to the job failures in \Program Files\Symantec\Backup Exec\Catalog took care of the issue.

[Ken_Putnam]

Good

If you are satisfied then please close this thread by marking one of the posts as a "solution"