Networker

Re: [Networker] Unscheduled full backups

2012-02-25 10:21:11
Subject: Re: [Networker] Unscheduled full backups
From: jee <jee AT ERESMAS DOT NET>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:20:49 +0000
Hi Roberto,

Full backups will occur even if they are not scheduled as such when there are 
no previous full backups of those savesets on the media db.

Full backups, if they are valid, are always useable ( I assume you mean 
'useable' or 'usable' and not 'useful'). That's because they dont depend on 
previus backups.

It is posible that previous full backups have failed and been removed by 
networker. This may still happen with the full backups you just found. If you 
don't have a full backup,  networker will run a full backup until you get a 
valid one.

Check with mminfo if those full backups  are  good (use 'ssflags' and 
'sumflags' 
on the mminfo report). Look also on the NW logs.




jee


On Wednesday 22 Feb 2012 08:31:16 you wrote:
> Hi there.
> I got a similar problem: some of my clients decided to do full backups
> instead of incremental. I found the indexes of the full backups of these
> clients under the "Index save sets" and by using the mminfo command. I got
> also the same evidences in the report "Save Set Details by Client" of
> "Networker Backup Statistics", but not in the same report of "Networker
> Backup Status".
> 
> So, I wonder how it is possible to find FULL backups not scheduled (and not
> manually launched) and if they're useful for any restore you may need.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Roberto
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