11-10-2016 07:43 AM
Hi all,
I have a question on regards to daily backups for an environment I am taking over.
I am noticing that Daily incremental backups are performing Full backups.
The activity monitor still shows the jobs as a Daily schedule but the backup size is 1TB plus.
The policy for this job only has a Daily schedules, the Weekly and Monthly schedules are on another policy.
Is this best practice.
thank you.
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11-10-2016 11:09 AM
Certainly not best practice, but that is not to say it can't work.
What type is the Daily schedule ? See under attributes on the schedule properties
Could be a configuration error, as the default type is Full when creating a schedule.
Another thing that can cause something like this is another program setting the archive bit so everything gets backed up. The migation of that is to use modified time.
11-11-2016 07:30 AM
Incremental backups act as full backups if the backup policy doesn't contain a full backup schedule.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH164114
11-10-2016 11:09 AM
Certainly not best practice, but that is not to say it can't work.
What type is the Daily schedule ? See under attributes on the schedule properties
Could be a configuration error, as the default type is Full when creating a schedule.
Another thing that can cause something like this is another program setting the archive bit so everything gets backed up. The migation of that is to use modified time.
11-10-2016 11:44 AM
11-10-2016 12:41 PM
I would say to check the daily schedule configuration.
What type of backup you are referring here?
What is the size of the Weekly and Monthly Full backups for this client?
Since when the daily backup started backing up 1 TB?
Any configuration changes made to this policy/client recently?
Regards
Vinod Kumar Edara
11-11-2016 07:30 AM
Incremental backups act as full backups if the backup policy doesn't contain a full backup schedule.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH164114
11-15-2016 07:49 AM
This is a Differential Incremental Backup the the job hasnt changed since I took over.
It has run quite a few times succesfully but it recently started this behavior.
The Full backup for this client is on a different policy.
I will be creating a new policy with both the Full and Daily in the same policy.