> -----Original Message-----
> Message: 2
> From: Katherine Cerqueira <kcerqueira AT team.look DOT ca>
> To: "'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'"
>        <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:49:10 -0400
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Restore - Help
>
> Hi,
>
> A backup was done but someone canceled it before it was finished.  It
> managed to backup about 25gb before the job was canceled.
> However, a manual
> backup was then followed and done to completion.  When I try to do a
> restore, it only shows the data of the completed backup.  Nothing is
> cataloged regarding the first canceled job. Is there anyway
> to restore the
> 25gb of backup that was backed up off the first canceled job.
>  Wouldn't the
> data still be on the tape?

Katherine,

Have you thought about changing the maximum fragement size under the storage
unit configuration? By default this is set to 0 which means it will try and
let
the job run to completion. Which is not all bad mind you, but it also means
that
if your backup job dies halfway through, then it tosses the catalog info for
the
backup session upto the 50% and then starts over. Some admins will set this
to
say 2gb or larger depending on platform and then the job will make a second
pass
and backup just 2gb and continue from there. This is a much better solution
when you
have backup jobs running against slow clients with really large disks. IE
10gb or larger
backups over slow 10/100mb links. Just a suggestion. See the following for
more info.

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/239409.htm

Regards,

Paul

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