Failed Backups

[GrimR]

I have just moved from ntbackup to Backup exec. If you receive a failed backup, is all the data non recoverable?

Second question, I removed a drive [e:] from my one server and gave it to C: [using partition tools], now the backup failed again due to the selection not found, I had to redo the selections [backup job] so now I have to redo all my tapes, surely there's an easier way to remove it from the list.

 

[Davetoo]

Depends on what failed during the backup. Lots of times a single file can't be backed up so it reports it as a failed backup. So you'll have to be a bit more specific.

When you create a backup job, create a selection list. That way you just change the list and not the jobs because the job will use the list as its source.

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[GrimR]

Depends on what failed during the backup. Lots of times a single file can't be backed up so it reports it as a failed backup. So you'll have to be a bit more specific.

seems to be a MSSQL instance. How can I check whats on the tape, and BTW how can you restore to a different location, I dont see an option.

When you create a backup job, create a selection list. That way you just change the list and not the jobs because the job will use the list as its source.

The problem was the list, it kept the missing drive, even after I tried updating it.

 

[Davetoo]

If it's just the MSSQL isntance, then everything else it backed up would still be recoverable...that goes for anytime a job completes but has failed objects during the backup. When you try to restore a file the option to put it somewhere else is on that wizard.

You have to adjust just the list in the BE software, don't do it through a job, do the list in the lower pane only.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

There are no more PDC's! There are DC's with FSMO roles!