Do Storage Lifecycle Policy (SLP) operations retry after a failure?

[mcdonamw_ews]

I have an SLP with both a replication operation as well as a duplication operation.  One of my duplication operations for a given VM failed.  

I'm curious if NBU automatically retries jobs/operations, specifically those above.  It doesn't appear to have done so over the last 12 hours, so I'm assuming not and I must wait until the next backup and hope the next image is duplicated?  

I don't see an option to manually restart the job to get that particular image so I fear I have a lack of redundancy for it.

[quebek]

Hi
Yes it should.
Check the output from command
nbstlutil report
Read about above command

[StefanosM]

SLP guarantees that you will get the copies you asked for.
The default behavior is that after the first try, SLP will retry two times in increments of 5 minutes. After the first 3 tries, the retry interval is 2 hours.The retry intervals are configured at the master server's properties under SLP parameters.

By design, a backup is not expired until all copies are done, even if the expiration date for all copies has passed.
I disagree with that design. My opinion is that SLP must expire a backup if all copies expiration passed. 

[mcdonamw_ews]

Hmm.  I've gone through all the job in activity monitor and I've had other jobs replicating/duplicating but I cannot find any other attempt for this specific client.  They all use the same backup/slp.

Unfortunately I don't think I can run nbstlutil as I don't have direct access to the master server (belongs to our Linux team).  I'll have to see if someone else can get that.

[StefanosM]

check if the particular backupid has copies, using the catalog section of the GUI

[X2]

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@StefanosM wrote:

check if the particular backupid has copies, using the catalog section of the GUI

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This is the correct, reliable and efficient way to find out about backup images and their copied. Going through backup jobs is like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes... especially for duplication jobs.