1 Policy Multiple Clients - Various Backup Selections

[markdavies1978]

Hi all,

I have 1 policy with 11 clients of which most clients have different backup selections.

I notice from within the backup job details for each client there is an info warning stating "TRV - object not found for file system backup".

Backups complete fine but is this normal?

Thanks.

[revarooo]

It's not unnormal. There was probably a file selection that does not exist on the client.

Have you checked all file selections in your policy exists on all the clients?

[markdavies1978]

Each client within the policy has its own backup selection added, this policy has grown ove time but all seems in order.

What appears to be happening is that each client is attempting to backup the file locations of the other clients.

Is this normal?

[Marianne]

A policy can only have ONE Backup Selection.

You cannot specify different backup selection for each client.
The same Backup Selection is applied to all clients in the policy.

Unless you have ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES in Backup Selection, you should have different policies for different clients with different Backup Selections.

[markdavies1978]

Hi Marianne,

Thanks.

NBU lets me select and browse each clients drives so that is what has been happening over the years.

Backups run fine and I can restore but I guess this is simply not best practice?

[Jaykullar]

You can put in as many backup selections and clients in a policy, doesnt mean it will work without errors.

If client 1 does not have backup selection 2, and client 2 does not have backup selection 1, then think about add in client side excludes so you can keep them in one poilcy, if you want to.

So your policy can have:

Client1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Backup selection D:\, E:\, F:\, G:\

Client 1 only has E:\ so needs an exclude for D:\, F:\, G:\ etc.

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

NBU lets me select and browse each clients drives

Each time you do that, it will overwrite or add to the previous selection.

When the backup runs, the same Backup Selection is used for each client in the policy.

Check your current policy as follows:

bppllist <policy-name> -U

[markdavies1978]

Ok thanks all, makes sense now.