[Veritas-bu] backup not capturing all data (Long...sorry)
2005-03-18 08:38:58
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
> Sent: March 17, 2005 5:21 PM
> To: Paul Keating
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] backup not capturing all data (Long...sorry)
>
> I've seen something like this on a Unix client. It turns out that the
> files were created in the past. Have you checked the
> modification dates
> on the directories to make sure they're not in the future? Also check
> the STREAMS file and see what it says for when the last full was.
Will check that first thing today.
Did you mean they were created in the future?
If I do a FULL backup, it shouldn't matter if they were created in the
past, before or after the last FULL, correct?
I haven't (yet) run into an issue with files being created in the
future.
> The other thing to check is to make sure that somebody didn't
> put in an
> exclude for the directories below this point.
Done....definately not that.
> I sure made a DBA happy when he created his archive logs in
> the past (he
> gzip'ed them up and by default the date on the gzip file is
> the date of
> the first file) and none of the gzip'ed files made it to tape... all
> the backups completed with a status 0 - it successfully backed up
> nothing...
The file was gzipped with a past date, but a FULL picked it up, correct?
Paul
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