Full Backup on a Incremental Day?

[Midntsol]

My jobs run append incremental M-T and Friday Full. On Thursday it had done a Full on Thursday and overwrote my three weekly incrementals. The tapes where renamed differently with no serial numbers. Come Friday everything was back to normal.

Arcserve 2000-Advanced Ed.
Version 7.0 Build 1100
SP 4

 

[fritz4000]

I question if you modified the job and resubmitted it at all. Any time you resubmit a rotational job, it actually submits a new job and performs a full backup the day it is submitted. Therefore if you chose to modify the job, made no changes and clicked the traffic light Icon, a new job will submit and a full backup will be done.

 

[mspope]

To work around this, if you modify a gfs job, add an exception. - view the calendar and you'll see that it wants to do a fullbackup - add an exception and the calendar will change accordingly.

If it does not change - click the append selection on the left.

 

[Fredje]

I have Arcserve 6.61 Enterprise on Windows2000 server.
I modified my GFS and added an exeption for this day (Differential).

However the system had done a full backup...
On an NT4, it work but on 2000???

Thx
Fredje

 

[fritz4000]

6.61 Enterprise edition is not supported on Windows 2000.

 

[Fredje]

Supported or not It runs...

I'll find myself a solution.
Thank you for (un)support...

Fredje

 

[Fredje]

Ok.
First test was on implementation of an GFS job.
Exeption was set on differential with result: a full was done

On modify + (re)submit, the exeption is taken and the system does a differential.

FYI

Fredje

 

[chkplsfromindia]

try to run a custom incremental/differential backup and see how it goes... Happiness is a daily decision

 

[fritz4000]

My only reason for stating that 6.61 is not supported on windows 2000 is that I have seen other agents that do not report errors during backing up unsupported versions of OS/databases, but the problems arise when trying to restore. As long as you are verifying that you can restore, feel free to use what you want. Just trying to prevent getting into a situation where you may not be able to recover information.

 

[Fredje]

It runs 3 month in production environement.
The backups runs good and the restores too.
I do backups on "Network" and "Backup Agents".
I tested it already and all work. ;-)

FYI, ArcServe 6.61 Advanced with no SP on Win2k SP2.
I tryed to install SP2 on ArcServe with result "no SP requiered for ArcServe on windows2000". I think the reason is "not supported", so you say. ;-)
The only wrong thing is a problem with the "Removable Storage Service" of Win2k. I disabled it and no more problems were detected.

It is possible that CA not support ArcServe 6.61 for merchandising reasons, but I think I'm not alone in this way.

Fredje

 

[fritz4000]

6.61 had a couple of versions. There was Workgroup and Advanced that was at build 834 (and you could put SP2a on it). If this was installed to a windows 2000 machine the database engine would not run (I do not know what would occur if a functioning server were upgraded to windows 2000). There was also 6.61 Enterprise Edition which was at build 885. This would also not run on windows 2000. When windows 2000 was released, CA made available 6.61 Workgroup and Advanced for Windows 2000 (build 897) as an interim until ARCserve 2000 was released. The 6.61 for windows 2000 did not support backing up system state and other items specific to windows 2000. It was basically there only for backing up data not related to the windows 2000 OS.

 

[Fredje]

Exactly it is:
ArcServe IT for WindowsNT - Advanced Edition (Build 834)
The system is not an upgrade. It is a Win2k based install.

The "database engine" don't run if you let it on system account. If you set it on the "backup account" (also local administrator) it runs good. (I think it is the same on NT4 but not sure)

I recognise I use this Win2k server as an NT4.0
I don't use specific components of Win2k cause this is a dedicated machine only for backups & restores.