dshuster Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I have 3 questions that I hope someone can help me with: 1)I am using a VXA Tape drive for all my client Systems. Everytime a backup is completed I thought a snapshot is created and the old is overwritten. Why would there be more then one snapshot displayed. I thought only the last snapshot created would be displayed? 2)Some of the snapshots do not contain state information even though it was checked in the script. Why would this occur? 3)How would I clean up the snapshots so the last is shown with state information? If I removed all the snapshots would it remove the sessions also? Would it recreate the snapshot on the next backup? I want to be able to create a disaster recovery CD but sometimes I have to go to an older snapshot to do this. I hope I was clear on my questions! Thanks -Dimitry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Hi With normal backups Retrospect does not delete old snapshots. It simply moves them out of the catalog file to the backup data so you can retrieve it any time you like. The only way to keep only the most recent snapshot is to do a recycle backup every time. State information is only saved when backing up a system volume. were there any errors in the log in regard to these backups? You can't actually remove snapshots and sessions from the backup set. They are always preserved in the backup data. You can however delete any snapshots you like from the backup set catalog. That way they will not be displayed when you try to run restores. Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshuster Posted July 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I am still having problems with: 2)Some of the snapshots do not contain state information even though it was checked in the script. The volume backed up was a system volume. There were no errors in the logs. Sometimes there are two snapshots of the same volume. One with system volume and the other without. Why would this occur? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 Hi State information is only kept for system drives. I'm not sure why you would have the two shapshots. What is the time difference between them? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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