Hi Patti,

On 11/06/2009, at 07:14 , Clark, Patti wrote:

Now comes the gotcha - ClientDef2 has the directive skips.  When the
Full backup runs on the first Saturday, the saveset skips by directive
are entered as "Full" backup levels shown by mminfo even though it is
skipped.  The next day for months 2 and 3 of the quarter,  the level 3

backups scheduled for the first Sunday containing the itemized savesets

doesn't back anything up that did not change between Saturday and
Sunday.

So, skipped savesets receive the "level" of the backup executed and

impacts the level schedule. My /orabu saveset was itemized for a level

3 backup this past Sunday.  First database backup runs after
ClientDef1's incremental backup Friday-Saturday completing prior to
ClientDef2's backup with the skip directive.  Second database backup
runs Saturday-Sunday.  Only the second database backup appears on tape
from the level 3 backup performed on Sunday.  I am missing the entire
backup of the first database backup.

I generally recommend the following:

-> Skip is for files
-> Null is for directories

Cheers,

Preston.

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