New to VB and lost

[pullthechute]

Hiho-
The person we had running our backups and, her assistant, flew the coupe. The automatic backups ran good for the remainder of the month then simply stopped, which she had warned us about. However, the onslaught of worms and viruses
around campus for the past few months kept us overloaded and
noone found time to read manuals and play around. We're running Netbackup on a Win2K server with one robot and 9 clients. The classes are still active but it's not doing the backups. Of the tapes in our library, one is FROZEN and one is set to expire tonight but the others are active. I'm reading but it's slow going. Can someone point me in the right direction (if that's possible (=(8 ) so I can get things started again before
some catastrophe pops up? For the time being- even writing over the tapes that are in there would be fine. . .

cheers,
Bill Edison

 

[leb65]

Start with your policies make sure you have them set to do daily,weeky and monthly backup. Set your monthly backup to vaulted if you have this feature , Set them up such daily backup will run during night ( set policy by frequency 1 day and your schedule window let say from 7pm - 7am)
Try to read your frozen tape such a) unfreeze it ( use bpmedia -unfreeze -m <media id >) b) use bpmedialist -mcontents -m <mediaid> -U this will mount tape and will try to read it. If this is OK then you could have dirty drive , clean it up. See if you can have one good daily increm backup. It should be enough to keep you going