Jobs are completed, not showing up in Restore tab. 1

[gregbirdsall]

I am using Backup-Exec 9.1 on a Windows 2003 server. I am using remote agents to back up three Linux boxes and three Windows boxes.

I can connect to them fine, and have scheduled daily backups to disk, weekly dumps to tape.

In the job monitor screen I get "Completed with Exceptions" as my Job Status results, and the only exceptions were open files, which is normal. The file sizes range anywhere from 70 megs to 20 Gigs. Everything seems to be working, but when I go to restore, only three jobs show up.

I have created differnet devices to separate the Linux and Windows servers, each backs up to a different directory on the HD. Two jobs are on one device, one job on the other.

All jobs have the "Append if possible, overwrite if not" checkbox selected, and each device is set up for 1 Gig Maximum size and 100 maximum backup sets. They are also set at 0 for reserve disk space.

I am really confused as to what is going on. I double checked the Append boxes on all jobs, and verified that there is enough drive space remaining.

Anyone have any suggestions or run into this problem before?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[SQLBill]

Have you checked the job histories for each job to make sure it really succeeded?

-SQLBill

 

[Castor66]

I didn't realise Backup Exec had agents for Linux? Can you tell me where you got them?

 

[gregbirdsall]

Yes, jobs have completed succesfully. It even gives me the file part name range for the backup operation. I think they are getting overwritten somehow, but I cannot find any record of it in the logs.

If I can't figure this out, I'm just going to watch them tonight and see whats really going on.

The Linux agents are in the install directory under a sub-dir called agents I believe. There is a file named be_agent.tar that works with red hat - you may have to find a different distribution for other versions.

 

[Castor66]

Well, bugger me with a fish fork! I nver saw them. I went to Veritas' site and didn't see anything so I scripted up a samba copy to my veritas server every night for my backups.

Thanks for this - I'll try it out on my test server!

 

[gregbirdsall]

Heh - good luck! They seem to work pretty well.

 

[gregbirdsall]

Well, if anyone cares, it was a very silly oversight - the Overwrite protection was set to None - so it was only keeping 20 or so gigs before it began to overwrite.