Incomplete backup moving to done state

[Sandeepkumar]

Hi Team

One of the backup went into incomplete state and it remained in that state till its time,if it goes into done state is the backup successful ..?? Can it be used for restore..??

As we have storage crunch we were helpless expect to remain backup in incomplete state.

[X2]

Default time for an incomplete job to be marked as "Done" is 3 hours for a backup job. Could be different in your environment.

In the following situations, NetBackup starts a new job instead of resuming an
incomplete job:
■ If a new job is due to run, or, for calendar-based scheduling, another run day
has arrived.
■ If the time since the last incomplete backup was longer than the shortest
frequency in any schedule for the policy.
■ If the time indicated by the Clean-up property, Move backup job from
incomplete state to done state, has passed.

^^^^^^^^ information is from the Admin Guide.

Can the backup image that was incomplete be used for restore? The answer would be in that job details. Check the status of the job - the exit status should tell you if the job ended successfully (if admin corrected the cause of the incomplete).

[Michal_Mikulik1 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

when the job status is incomplete, you cannot restore. When it is resumed and completed ok (status 0 or 1), you can restore.

regards

Michal

[Sandeepkumar]

Hi

Backup was in incomplete state for 3 days due to inavailablity of storage and so backup went into done state.

Now the backup is successful or not..??

[Marianne]

What is the job status code? Anything higher than 1 is a failure. You cannot restore from it.
All catalog entries for the failed job gets removed when failed backup goes to Done state.