Hi,
I am trying to understand the consequences of certain failure scenarios.
(1) I have to back up 3 volumes (vol1, vol2, vol3 in that order) via NDMP within the same policy which has weekly full on Saturday and daily incremental. Let's say during a weekly full backup, it failed in the middle of backing up vol2 and it's out of the full backup window.
- Is the backup of the vol1 portion still good, ie, can it be used for future recovery?
- If I re-run the backup policy manually by selecting weekly full schedule, will it do a full backup on vol1 again?
- If I don't re-run the backup policy manually and wait for the next backup window which is a daily incremental backup, will it back up vol2 and vol3 in full?
(2) I have backups going to VTL which then get dupliated to physical tape library. If the tapes run out, duplication will fail. Will netbackup continue from where it left off? For example, if a duplication job is duplicating image x from VTL and it fails in the middle of it because there is no more tape to write to. After I put in more tapes, will it continue to write the data next in image x on the new tape? Or it will rewrite to the new tape from the beginning of image x?
Thanks,