Hi all,
We have a network of servers that are being backed up Daily using an invcemental backup Monday - Thursday and there is then a Full Weekly backup that is run on a Friday night using Full, Using archive bit.
The idea for us is that any changes made through the week are backed up in the inremental backups Monday-Thursday and then on Friday, all of Fridays changes and the whole network should be backed up onto tape.
However, we have noticed that the backup dosent seem to be the including all the files as our whole network SAN is 2.93TB Usage and there is currently only 2.1-2.5TB being written to tape. We can confirm this by looking at how many tapes it actually used, as well as the Backup Job and the Verfication log.
For example, today is Monday, and Fridays Full Weekly backup is shown to have completed, and when I check the Job history it shows that 2,189,766,664,014 bytes have been backed up. This is 2.18977 TB but our whole usage of the SAN is 2.93 TB.
This SAN is attached to the same server as Backup Exec, meaning that it shouldnt even go over the Domain to get the SAN.
However, in the same job, the Backup process does goes onto the Domain to get some off site VHD's for remote servers. This isnt affected and backs up sucessfully.
We have tried many things and still dont know what is causing the files not to be abcked up. No matter whether the archive bit is turned off or on for a perticular file, it should be backed up every week to tape.
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated and I am happy to explain anything else if needed.
Many Thanks,
Toby