> Case in point. Let's say I run an incremental on Monday for a particular
> group, and another on Tuesday, and for some reason I try to clone one of
> the save sets from Tuesday, but the cloning operation fails because it
> can't read the save set. If I run another incremental it will capture
> all the files since Monday. What I really want is to capture all the
> files since Sunday. The only thing I can think of would be to run a
> level backup, but this would go all the way back to the previous lower
> numbered backup which in our case would be the previous full. That seems
> like over kill? Would be nice if you could tell NetWorker to choose a
> particular incremental for a particular date.
>
> Will this work: `save -s server -b pool -g group -l incr -t mm/dd/yy` if
> I run that command from the server, and mm/dd/yy is Sunday's date?
It might, but I'm not sure of all the ramifications. However, you'd run
that from the client, not the server. Also, you'd want to specify the
time down to the second. I think if you just give a date it'll assume
the beginning of the day (00:00:00). Pull the proper one from 'mminfo'.
If your bad incremental were the last one run, it's probably easiest to
just delete it from the media database and rerun the incr.
How long do you go with just incrs? I don't go very long because I'm
sure i'll damage or lose a tape someday and I don't want to invalidate a
ton of other tapes when that happens.
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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