Hi Everyone,
There are two parts to my post, but all relating to a failed job.
Retry Jobs:
In some other products, if your back were to fail and you select to retry the job, it will not backup the entire directory from scratch again, but rather just the items that failed. This would greatly help us, for jobs that are large and take hours to complete, rather than rerunning the entire job just to cover a few files. We sometimes do this manually now by setting up a second job and including only the files that were missed. Is there something that can do this? I understand that it my catch some files that were backed up the first time since there may have been some changes on the files with the snapshot, but I am hoping it would still dramatically shorten the job time.
Erasing Jobs on Media:
This one I can guess is not possible, but I am hoping maybe it is anyway. Is there a way to only erase a job from the media. For example I have a tape with three jobs on it, but the 3rd actually failed and we want to erase the failed job from the tape to free up space? Is it possible to do the erase only on that job without erasing the whole tape?
Backup Best Practices:
So we want to try reduce the amount of failing jobs we get, which in the grand scheme of things is not alot, but we really want to cut it down as much as possible. Are there any best practices about how big backup jobs should be? For example is it advisable that we have backups that are up to 10Tb? Or should these sort of things be broken down to smaller jobs? not sure if there are any Best Practices involving this.
Kind Regards,
Stuart Wepener