Craig Barratt wrote: > Mark writes: > > >> I am doing some c$ share lock-down in Windows Group Policy at present >> and backup failures are expected for primary backup attempts and for >> catch-ups on any failures. No problem there. What _wasn't_ expected was >> that with the failed hosts that are getting retried at each wake-up all >> the other hosts (ie. currently up-to-date) are getting extra backups. >> This is clearly undesirable as it rolls out my older states >> unnecessarily and runs my DumpPostShareCmd notifiers causing spam. >> >> Any suggestions for what bits of the BackupPC configuration I can set to >> prevent this whilst ensuring the normal backups keep working? Aside from >> lengthening the wake-up intervals, I would have thought that only failed >> hosts would get retried whilst also picking up any hosts ready for new >> backup but as as for previously successful hosts getting retried within >> their retention periods I am not so comfortable with. >> >> - Do backups and retention check off each other? backup <-> retention >> ... versus ... retention<-backup dismissing backup<-retention >> - Can retention policies 'block' backup attempts? >> > > Sorry about the delay in replying. This shouldn't happen. If one > host fails and is retried it shouldn't cause other up-to-date hosts > to get backed up too. > > I'd be interested in seeing some of the log files off-list. > > Craig > Thanks for the response Craig. I can say with full confidence that the logs have rolled out and due to my not retaining them the trail is lost. Shame on me. I really need to keep the logs aside when there is an incident though I guess I naively assumed they'd stay around until I manually deleted them or made up my own rotator. I'll be sure to alert everyone if it happens again.
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