Thanks to all,

I'm new to netbackup and thats a terrible goof up. Many of the gurus
out here have shown me where I err'ed. The concept is clear to me know

But I'm still surprised as to why the first working day backup is
approx 74 GB when the full backup on SUN is 120 GB.

Well I'm planning to check the timestamps of the files on SUN and MON,
and also the TIR, and ofcourse whether CIFS has any role to play.

Regards,
PP BIJU KRISHNAN

On 8/17/06, Catlin, Brian <bcatlin at uslec.com> wrote:
> You need to use differential backups.  Cumulative is all the changes
> since the last full backup, differential is the changes since the last
> backup
>
> BC
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> Netbackup
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:00 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Cc: biju.krishnan at 3i-infotech.com; sysadmin-oprs at icicibank.com
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] What is cumulative incremental???
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> We backup a CIFS network drive, which stores scanned images on a windows
> machine, to which it is mapped.
>
> Since Images are'nt modified they are just read. The application team
> claims that the drive gets updated with 4 GB of data everyday.
>
> We have used a cumulative Incremental backup type and it is observed
> that
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> SUN -> Full backup -> 120 GB
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> Mon -> cumulative incremental backup -> 74 GB
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> Tue -> cumulative incremental 76 GB
>
> Why is the backup so huge when we have specified only cumulative
> incremental?? The backup size shd have been approx 8 GB by TUE.
>
> Another question is whether we can identfiy images about to expire on a
> particular day??? I need to identify images which have'nt been vaulted
> and which are nearing expiry.
>
> Regards,
> PP BIJU KRISHNAN
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