George,
To ensure you haven't missed any data schedule a level 1 backup
on the affected clients. This should ensure that all data from the last
full (that Networker has in the database) has been backed up.
Regards
Bob
>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMC NetWorker discussion
>[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Mussulman
>Sent: 19 March 2007 17:16
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [Networker] How to bypass a removed tape?
>
>On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:26:49PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
>> I was running some level full backups from several clients
>in order to
>> test backup speed to a new tape drive. The tape was labeled into a
>> test pool and not the normal pools I use, but indexing was
>not turned
>> off for the pool. I cancelled the backup after a while, but some of
>> the fulls completed. I then relabeled the tape but not before some
>> nightly incremental backups ran and completed on those same
>clients. I
>> then re-ran those incremental backups.
>>
>> I assume that some of the later incrementals based their backups on
>> what had changed since those same file systems completed
>fulls in the
>> earlier test, but now with the full volume gone, what do I do? Do I
>> need to do anything?
>
>George,
>
>My gutshot is that with the full removed, with dangling
>dependencies, Networker would remove the orphaned incrementals
>the next time it did its index cleanup. That means any future
>incrementals would base themselves off whatever the last good
>previous state was. But please don't take my word for it;
>test it first. I've found the unix nwadmin Index view to the
>best, fastest way to see backup dependencies. (You can kind
>of generate it from mminfo, but not as quickly and it doesn't
>do the indenting.)
>
>In any case, I would probably run some true leveled backup (a
>full or numbered backup) to reset the future incrementals to a
>good state. If possible, scheduling a full to proper media is
>probably the best idea.
>
>Dave
>
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