Retrospect 6.5 Single Server - Member Skipped

[FuzzyJohn]

I use 2 backup sets with a schedule that alternates between them every day, Backup Set A and Backup Set B. I am backing up to DDS-4 tapes.

Today I noticed in the properties of Backup Set B that it had 3 members:

1-Backup Set B 9.1G

2-Backup Set B 609M

3-Backup Set B 3.2G

 

Looking back thru the log I found an entry that says:

Member skipped: "1-Backup Set B"

and then about 10 days later another entry that said:

Member skipped: "2-Backup Set B"

 

There are no other errors recorded in the log for those days or the days before and after.

 

Backup Set B should have been one tape.

 

What would cause this skipping of a member and the next member to be created on the same tape?

[natew]

Hi

 

Retrospect will skip media in any one of these situations:

 

1)The "skip to blank media" preference is checked AND the correct media is not available when the backup runs AND a blank tape is avalible.

 

2)The user clicks on "skip" in a Retrospect media request window

 

3)A "new member" backup is scheduled

 

Thanks

Nate

[FuzzyJohn]

Thanks Nate. However none of these apply. All Retrospect runs are on a schedule and the other backups to the same tape on the same schedule went OK. It was only the 3 instances where Retrospect skipped.

 

There must be some other kind of glitch.

 

John

[natew]

Hi

 

Retrospect won't do it all by itself.

Do you have the media timeout set? Does anyone else have access to the machine?

 

Thanks

Nate

[FuzzyJohn]

I'll check for media timeout. No one has access to the machine.

[FuzzyJohn]

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Hi

 

Retrospect won't do it all by itself.

Do you have the media timeout set? Does anyone else have access to the machine?

 

Thanks

Nate

 

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Media timeout is not checked.

The "Automatic skip to blank media" was checked. I dechecked it. But that does not explain why the media was considered blank. I should have had about 50 sessions on it at the time.

 

I guess all I can do is to keep an eye on it.