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"Zero"-Success on empty Job completion

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If you run a tape full job after a hyper-v full job you will get an successfull message if you abort the previous job.
the second job (the tape job) sends out an e-mail, it had success backing up 0 files with 0 data..
what a success ;-)

i think thats an error. okay the job itself may have been run correctly, but there was no actual data to backup a full job AND the previous job throwed an error.
in case of previous job had an error, the tape job MUST send a warning out at least, that previous job had an error.
better send an error instead just a warning.
if you want a full job, it should send a warning. on an incremental it depents, but errors in previous job should at least start a warning.

another thing: during backup it seems that veeam keeps the latest restore point until the new one has been completed. so you get a low disk warning because veeam preserves 2 backups instead of 1during the job.
maybe you should be able to select "keep 0" on disk instead of at least 1. because if you do a tape job, you dont want to waste space afterwards.
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Re: "Zero"-Success on empty Job completion

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Hello Poweruser.

Let's say your primary job has failed - you receive the failed job email notification anyway (it's more important to fix as you don't have a primary backup on your repository). Secondary job generate failed report only in case it cannot process the data created by primary jobs. Thanks.
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Re: "Zero"-Success on empty Job completion

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okay it can process zero data from job one.
so you get an email with success 0 bytes.
thats confusing
who wants 0 bytes on tape?
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