Your full schedule should have a frequency of 3 days with the start window
Friday evening. See the NBU admin guide "defining schedules" section

We had similar issues when we first started running NBU with the frequency
set to 1 week.

Regards,

Brian Briscoe
European OA Support
Visteon Technical Centre, 28/803,
Dunton, England,
Tel  (8738)6214 Ext 01268 406214
Fax (8738)4367 Ext 01268 404367
Email: bbriscoe AT visteon DOT com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bertie Booysens [mailto:bertie AT stortech.co DOT za]
> Sent: 30 September 2002 14:59
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Cumulative and Full Backups
> 
> 
> Hi All
> 
> I am experiencing some strange backup patterns...Hoping 
> someone out ther can help..
> OS - Solaris 8
> Netbackup 34.1
> Patch level 34_3
> 
> I have various backup policies consisting of two schedules 
> each. One schedule runs a full backup every Friday and 
> cumalitive incremental backups from Monday to Thursday. The 
> operators checks the full backup runs on saturday morning.
> 
> Case......Some of the full scheduled backups will not kick 
> off on a Friday night. The operators will then kick this off 
> manually on a Saturday morning. The strange thing is that it 
> is never the same clients. This is a ongoing problem for 
> different client every Saturday.
> 
> 
> Any IDEAS......
> 
> Bertie Booysens
> Sco ACE, SCSA
> Software Engineer
> Tel:      +27 11 319 6153
> Mobile: +27 82 492 1410
> Email: <bertie AT stortech.co DOT za>
> 
> 
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