My intuition tells me that CheckPoint doesn't work on NDMP clients.
Is this correct?
Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:
> Checkpoint Restart allows a failed backup job to be resumed from the
> > last checkpoint. Checkpoints are taken periodically during a backup.
> > Therefore, if a backup job fails, the issue causing the failure can be
> > corrected and the job can be resumed from the last checkpoint rather
> > than at the beginning, thus saving time. In addition, an active backup
> > job may be suspended and then resumed from the last checkpoint at a
> > later time. Also, jobs may be restarted from the beginning by
> > selecting them from the Activity Monitor.
> >
>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Katherine Greenberg
> Systems Engineer
> Mid-Range Storage Management
> Aetna, Inc.
> greenbergka AT aetna DOT com
> Work: 860.636.6724
> Pager: 860.366.0672
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] *On Behalf Of *Scott
> Jacobson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:11 PM
> *To:* Greenberg, Katherine A; jc AT goo-rooz DOT com
> *Cc:* veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Feature or Rumor? - Backup Fails;
> thencontinues from POF
>
> Sure enough - thanks, however;
>
> From reading the usage it appears that it only works on restores.
>
> Jennifer, your comment below infers it works on backups?
>
> -sj
>
> >>> Jennifer <jc AT goo-rooz DOT com> 6/29/2004 12:07:21 PM >>>
> Also to clarify the restart feature - it will restart the backup not at
> the POF but at the most recent checkpoint which is set by
> minutes....which is still handy
>
> Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:
>
> > I believe you are referring to the checkpoint restart. It became
> > available in 5.0 GA for backups for Standard and Windows backups.
> > (it's been available for restores since 4.5 FP3).
> >
> > This is from the release notes for 5.0:
> >
> >
> > 6 NetBackup Release Notes for UNIX and Windows
> >
> > New Backup Capabilities With This Release
> >
> > NetBackup 5.0 contains enhancements and new features that enable a
> > user to restart a backup at the last check point in the middle of the
> > backup, build a new synthetic image, and enhanced open file backups to
> > name a few.
> >
> > ~ NetBackup Supports Checkpoint Restart for Backup Jobs
> >
> > Checkpoint Restart allows a failed backup job to be resumed from the
> > last checkpoint. Checkpoints are taken periodically during a backup.
> > Therefore, if a backup job fails, the issue causing the failure can be
> > corrected and the job can be resumed from the last checkpoint rather
> > than at the beginning, thus saving time. In addition, an active backup
> > job may be suspended and then resumed from the last checkpoint at a
> > later time. Also, jobs may be restarted from the beginning by
> > selecting them from the Activity Monitor.
> >
> > Checkpoint restart for backups is supported for:
> >
> > ~ Backup jobs (support for restore jobs was introduced in 4.5 FP3).
> >
> > ~ Resume on file boundaries. This means the backup is resumed from the
> > next file after the last check-pointed file (for example, a resume
> > cannot occur within a file).
> >
> > ~Backups of file-system backups (backups which use the Standard or
> > Microsoft Windows policy types only).
> >
> > ~File system local and alternate client snapshot backups are
> > supported. Other offhost backups (for example, Media Server Copy or
> > Third Party Copy) are not supported.
> >
> >
> > ~Kate
> >
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Katherine Greenberg
> > Systems Engineer
> > Mid-Range Storage Management
> > Aetna, Inc.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Scott
> > Jacobson
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:41 PM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Feature or Rumor? - Backup Fails; then
> > continues from POF
> >
> > Can anyone confirm....
> >
> > Have I read that with 5.1 if a backup fails, you can now resubmit the
> > job and if Enterprise sees a failure of that host within the same
> > backup window that it will now continue the backup from the POF (point
> > of failure) and finish the job?
> >
> > Would be very handy when backing up a 2 terabyte system that fails 3/4
> > of the way into the job.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
> >
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