Hello - Netbackup 5.1 MP4 - 1 master media server, 2 media servers - 1 Storagetek SL500 w/ 4 LTO2's. Windows 2003 all around.
I've inherited the backups of our new file servers (used to be on Novell - backed up using Backup Exec).
The job is so enormous I can only fully back it up on Saturday morning - takes about 30-40some hours to complete. It's 1.2 TB and well over 3.3 million files.
It's live, enterprise-wide data that is volatile, meaning people delete files all the time, so restores are quite commonplace. So I need to back up each individual file and folder (no Flashbackup for me).
The problem is, with a job that takes so long to run, one little failure will completely ruin my week-end job. For the past 2 week ends, the job has written over a terabyte, then failed with like 5-8 hours to go (media write error, bad media, whatever). After all that writing, NOTHING is written to the Backup, Archive, Restore catalog. There is NO record of this job ever running, even though I can see all of the data on each individual tape using the reporting functions.
This is a HUGE problem for us, because that means there is no way to restore any data from this job...in Backup Exec (which we were before moving to Netbackup), even partial jobs were still able to be restored (at least the files that were backed up successfully). Why can I not do this in NB? Am I missing something?
Should I change how this job is configured? Maybe break the job up into multiple pieces so that even if 1 part fails, I'll at LEAST have something to restore?
Thank you for any assistance.
Greg.