Ed - we do have 6, so I'll give them a call.

As regards to the safety thing, the Full backup is rather long, so I
might wait until it's normally due on Friday and run the Full for the
new policy then.

I'm tending to find with NBU 6 that it's best to err on the side of
caution......

Cheers,

Tim 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:50 AM
To: Wilkinson, Tim
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Are client backups connected to specific
polices?

On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:00:00AM +1000, Wilkinson, Tim wrote:
> It may be an obvious question but I ask it for a reason; we have a 
> policy that appears to be setup correctly and has run at some point 
> (using frequency) but neither the Full backups nor Incrementals 
> backups appear to want to run on their own anymore (presently, I'm 
> having to kick them off manually).

Are you running 6.0?  If so, this is a known issue that we've been
working on with NBU engineering for a while - contact support and see if
the newest scheduler is appropriate for you.

> I've tried deactivating then activating, but this hasn't resolved the 
> issue so I might create a new policy (with the same name) and delete 
> the old one. If I do this, will Incrementals carry on from the last or

> Full backup on the previous policy or does it all start again as it is

> a new policy (both polices will be exactly the same)?

Since neither fulls nor incrementals are running right now, when you
create the new policy, just manually run whichever full is due to be on
the safe side.  I believe that it will do the right thing though (if it
runs at all) and pick up where it left off.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org