Ericfoos Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 I have a backup set called Desktops. It runs overnight to disk. In the morning a groom script runs. The backup set preference for grooming is the last 4 backups. Onlycertain clients groom correctly. I have to go in and manually forget the old snapshots for the clients that do not groom automatically. Has anyone else seen this? Is there an easy solution? Manually removing snapshots is very time consuming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 It happens here when a client has been forgotten and re-added (such as when Windows is re-installed). Retrospect sees them as separate clients and the oldest client's four backups linger on forever. Does this fit with your situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericfoos Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Unfortunately not. I have seen taht behavior before when moving users to new computers. I have purged the offending snapshots to the grooming specifications and subsequent backups continue to not be groomed requiring me to manually groom again. I did notice in the "Restore" area that some backup clients have human heads instead of computers. Not sure if that is part of the problem or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lennart_T Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 For the client with eight snapshots in the screen shot's left half, what are the dates for the snapshots? Have you recreated the catalog file from disk? Repaired it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericfoos Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 It's a new set. Had a disk failure a few weeks ago so I started from scratch on the new disk. Dates are 8/13,14,20,21,22,25,26,27 The dates for the 8 snapshot client in the restore area that have a human head are 8/20,21,25,26 The other 4 snapshots have a computer icon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Wed, Thu, but not Fri the first week. Wed, Thu, Fri the second week but not Mon, Tue. Mon, Tue, Wed the current week. What can we make out of this? Not much, I guess. I was expecting four weekdays in a row, a gap and then the last four weekdays. Any problems/errors with the backups of this client? With any other client? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericfoos Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Yeah, the pattern of leaving a group of snapshots behind is what I'm used to seeing when some bit changes to make the server think it is a new client. The backups don't complain at all for any client that does not groom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Well, I'm out of ideas. Sorry. As this is a user-to-user discussion, you might want to contact Support Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ericfoos Posted August 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 Yeah, thanks for your input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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