That's why you should have all your schedules for a given policy with
the same windows.  It will see that it's supposed to run a full and
won't run the incremental that day.  When you give them two different
windows, all bets are off.

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W. Curtis Preston
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VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 

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Greenberg, Katherine (... wrote:
> It will do it by default, based on the backup that has not run in the
> longest time being run first.
> 
> 
> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/268644.htm
> 


This is what I see happening:

The full backup window is 8:00 am Tuesday to 8:00 am Wednesday. Daily
incrementals run from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am daily.

The full backups kick off at the scheduled time. 6:00 pm rolls around,
and since the fulls are still running, the incrementals queue up. They
don't actually start running until sometime early Wednesday. Come 6:00
Wednesday night, some incrementals are still running, and some of the
Wednesday night incrementals get delayed, and sometimes it takes days
for everything to get caught up.

SInce there isn't much need to run a full and incremental on the same
file system at the same time, I'd prefer just to skip the incrementals
on Tuesday (and Wednesday too, for that matter, since the full backups
can run into Wednesday sometimes) to avoid this problem.

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