Backup exec question

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In the backup rotation of a weekly backup and 4 days incremental backup. If the full weekly backup times out because the tape is full and does not do a verify but still has the data on it, will the incremental that week be usable? Is it worth doing incremental off a non complete backup in that sort of rotation ?
 
depends on what you want restore...

If you wanted to do a full restore it would us the full backup from before (not the one that failed)
incrementals for the next for days should fine
 
If the backup times out because the tape is full it is missing more than the verify. There is data that is not being completely backed up and will not be available to be restored. Anything that has been completely backed up prior to the job ending will be recoverable. the incremental backup for the data that was completely backed up in the full backup job will also be recoverable but what ever Be was backing up last or when the job errored/failed will not be recoverable. I would suggest possibly adjusting your backup jobs so that the tapes a can accommodate a full backup "perhaps breaking the 1 job into 2 "
 
Thanks. That is ok the end of the backup was not needed to be backed up. complicated. But 500gb found its way in to the backup by mistake.

We actually are planning on splitting the backup in to two and will be hopefully getting that going tomorrow. We want to move away from incremental and just do full backups and on fridays do a larger weekly backup.

The rest of the data on the backup seems ok to recover, well it is visible in the recovery selection list. I have never seen a backup software recommend a verify before, does not exactly instil confidence. CA arcserve does not require a verify. Backupexec is kind of annoying. It has the selection lists and policies and all that, seems over complicated than it needs to be. arcserve is just all self contained in one job, easy stuff. Also backupexec went through an entire 8 hour backup without failing and at the end we found out that the exchange backup failed due to credential problems, was just a setting wrong on the job. Still annoying that it does not error out at the point and send notification like arcserve would.
 
just wanted to add that the Verify part of the job just checks the health of the media and connections to help ensure the data can be read or restored from. You also can uncheck the verify check box and run a verify job later as long as Write checksums to media check box is selected.
 
Unless you regularly test the media and run restore jobs, I can't see why you would disable the verify option.
 
If the verify part of the job is interfering with the time needed to get other backups done, then it would be practical to disable it and schedule to run later.
 
groen said:
Also backupexec went through an entire 8 hour backup without failing and at the end we found out that the exchange backup failed due to credential problems, was just a setting wrong on the job. Still annoying that it does not error out at the point and send notification like arcserve would.
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BE will send out a notification if you tell it to - and it probably backed up something, fell back onto straight DBs rather than GRT or something... As GRT is the only thing I know of that BE needs to have credentials for to backup Exchange.

BE is a good simplistic product to use, which also can do some powerful things if you fiddle with it.
 
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