pchinn Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 On our servers we service at work we swap out backup drives periodically (usually at least on a weekly or bi-weekly basis). I check the backups remotely before and after we swap the drives. What I've noticed a lot lately is that backups are not running. When I check the properties on the backup set "skip this member" is selected. Of course, de-selecting this makes the backup run normally, but it can be a day or two before this is even checked if we get busy. What is causing Retrospect to select this. Are we doing something we shouldn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Are they swapped drives all members of the same backup set or are they from different backup sets? Do you have grooming on or off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pchinn Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 They are members of different backup sets. Our method is to stop the drive that's in the computer, swap it with an off-site backup and carry the drive that was in the computer off-site for storage until our next scheduled visit. Retrospect is set to automatically groom the drive based on the default settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 If Retrospect can not find the disk when the script runs it may mark the member as skip so that it can request another disk for the next backup attempt. Make sure the disk is available when the script starts. I can't think of any other reasons why this might be happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pchinn Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 We use proactive backups. I should've mentioned that. We have recently switched to proactive backups from scheduled backups. Will proactive backups have this problem as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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