Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Incrementals turning into full

2005-11-15 16:05:50
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Incrementals turning into full
From: wtsmith AT maine DOT edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:05:50 -0500
I have a similar problem on a couple of linux boxes (v5.1MP3AS2). If I 
turn "True Image Restore" off and do a full backup, subsequent 
incrementals are just little things (as expected). cheers, wayne

Lewick, Taylor wrote, in part, on 11/15/2005 3:54 PM:
>
> I am seeing this same problem but only on a Windows Cluster Server? 
> Its serving as a file server so I know there is no way 50-80% of the 
> data is changing daily but that is percentage of the fulls that the 
> incrementals are backing up. Opened a case with Veritas, not much to 
> go on right now.
>
>
> I have tried the cumulative incrementals using both archival bit and 
> mtime. Not running Volume shadow services on the client, media servers 
> are all Unix at 4.5 FP 8? Yes both full and incremental schedules are 
> in same policy. Sometimes incrementals seem to work okay, and 
> sometimes they are nearly the same size as a full. Even ran an 
> incremental, then went into restore pane and selected the incremental 
> and looked at all of the files in a directory and all of them were 
> over 1 year old by modify time?
>
>
> What gives?
>