Also to clarify the restart feature - it will restart the backup not at 
the POF but at the most recent checkpoint which is set by 
minutes....which is still handy

Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:

> I believe you are referring to the checkpoint restart. It became 
> available in 5.0 GA for backups for Standard and Windows backups. 
> (it's been available for restores since 4.5 FP3).
>  
> This is from the release notes for 5.0:
>  
>
> 6 NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX and Windows
>
> New Backup Capabilities With This Release
>
> NetBackup 5.0 contains enhancements and new features that enable a 
> user to restart a backup at the last check point in the middle of the 
> backup, build a new synthetic image, and enhanced open file backups to 
> name a few.
>
> ~ NetBackup Supports Checkpoint Restart for Backup Jobs
>
> Checkpoint Restart allows a failed backup job to be resumed from the 
> last checkpoint. Checkpoints are taken periodically during a backup. 
> Therefore, if a backup job fails, the issue causing the failure can be 
> corrected and the job can be resumed from the last checkpoint rather 
> than at the beginning, thus saving time. In addition, an active backup 
> job may be suspended and then resumed from the last checkpoint at a 
> later time. Also, jobs may be restarted from the beginning by 
> selecting them from the Activity Monitor.
>
> Checkpoint restart for backups is supported for:
>
> ~ Backup jobs (support for restore jobs was introduced in 4.5 FP3).
>
> ~ Resume on file boundaries. This means the backup is resumed from the 
> next file after the last check-pointed file (for example, a resume 
> cannot occur within a file).
>
> ~Backups of file-system backups (backups which use the Standard or 
> Microsoft Windows policy types only).
>
> ~File system local and alternate client snapshot backups are 
> supported. Other offhost backups (for example, Media Server Copy or 
> Third Party Copy) are not supported.
>
>  
> ~Kate
>  
>  
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Katherine Greenberg
> Systems Engineer
> Mid-Range Storage Management
> Aetna, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Scott 
> Jacobson
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:41 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Feature or Rumor? - Backup Fails; then 
> continues from POF
>
> Can anyone confirm....
>  
> Have I read that with 5.1 if a backup fails, you can now resubmit the 
> job and if Enterprise sees a failure of that host within the same 
> backup window that it will now continue the backup from the POF (point 
> of failure) and finish the job?
>  
> Would be very handy when backing up a 2 terabyte system that fails 3/4 
> of the way into the job.
>  
> Thanks,
> Scott
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