On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:06:05PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
> If an incremental saveset gets marked 'suspect' then will NW rerun the 
> next incremental based on the status from the previous one good one, or 
> will it pick up where that one left off?

I don't think any backup behavior looks at 'suspect' savesets.  Just
which volumes will be preferentially chosen by restores.

> Say, for example, that NW can't read the label on a tape and marks all 
> the savesets suspect, but you don't find out until a couple of days 
> later? Should you run a numeric or level full to grab everything from 
> just before that happened, or would the subsequent incrementals handle 
> everything appropriately?

The incrementals won't change.

-- 
Darren

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