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Joefrum
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warning in GFS weekly backup

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Hi All.
I'm getting these warnings on the weekly VM backup to GFS job.

! Tape backup was not created for 4/8/2019: there are no new restore points between 8/10/2018 and 4/8/2019
! Tape backup was not created for 18/08/2019: there are no new restore points between 11/08/2018 and 14/08/2018
! Tape backup was not created for 6/01/2019: there are no new restore points between 17/03/2018 and 6/01/2019

Should I be worried about these warnings or just ignore them ?, I'm just a little concerned that in case of major failure I've lost
the restore points.
Apart from the above on the weekly backup all other backup jobs complete successfully.

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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Hi and welcome to the community!
The warning means that no backups were written on tape because job didn't find any new backups.
What is the source of the backup to tape job, backup job or backup repository?
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Thank you Shestakov for the response.

The source's are 3 separate servers backing up 3 seperate databases (application server, datacentre etc)

My aim is to clear these warnings and stop them coming up in the reports

I've researched a bit and a possible answer is to simply disable the job and then enable it, this is supposed to clear the old warning messages, is this the correct procedure to follow ?
From the logs it looks like these same warnings have been appearing the past year.

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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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How often do the source jobs run?
Looks like the tape job runs more frequently and sometimes doesn't find anything to write on tapes.
If so, not sure how disabling/enabling job may help here.
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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This task runs on a weekly basis (on Sunday, no users in the system)
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5.4.2753
recent logs.

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XXX Datacenter 01	Warning	12:00:16 AM	1:03:14 AM (+1)	5.4 TB	5.4 TB	5.4 TB	25:02:57 	Synthetic full
Tape backup was not created for 4/08/2019: there are no new restore points between 8/07/2019 and 4/08/2019
Restore point for 25/06/2018 2:01:05 AM has already been written to tape, no weekly restore point found for 25/08/2019
Tape backup was not created for 6/01/2019: there are no new restore points between 9/06/2018 and 6/01/2019

XXX Application Servers	Warning	12:00:16 AM	9:32:34 PM	2.1 TB	2.1 TB	2.1 TB	21:32:18 	Synthetic full
Tape backup was not created for 4/08/2019: there are no new restore points between 8/10/2018 and 4/08/2019
Tape backup was not created for 25/08/2019: there are no new restore points between 15/09/2018 and 19/09/2018
Tape backup was not created for 6/01/2019: there are no new restore points between 17/03/2018 and 6/01/2019

XXXappXXX	Warning	12:00:16 AM	2:35:02 PM	29.0 GB	519.2 GB	519.2 GB	14:34:46 	Synthetic full
Tape backup was not created for 4/08/2019: there are no new restore points between 8/04/2019 and 4/08/2019
Tape backup was not created for 25/08/2019: there are no new restore points between 9/03/2019 and 14/03/2019
How do I remove these old warning messages from the logs ?

JoeFrum.
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Hi. Disable and enable the tape job should clear these warnings however keep in mind that it will make the tape job to 'forget' about all the previous old GFS dates and backups made before enabling the job so please make sure all needed old backups are archeived to tapes. Such operation won't affect newly created backups and GFS dates.
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Thanks, that worked and no more warning messages about old non existent backups points.
Weekly backup went through without any problems.
End of story, thank you all for your valuable input.
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Hi everybody.

Sorry for raising this yearold thread from the dead but I have the same warnings on a weekly GFS Tape Job. It happend only once before I worked here but now it is written to the log every week and I'd like to get rid of it.

Do I read it correctly that disabling and immediatley enabling the Tape Job cleares this warning?

What exactly does it mean that the Job 'forgets' about previous GFS dates and backups? Does it just mean that Backups that where not yet written to tape will not be written to tape after disabling/enabling the job. Will I still be able to recover from old tapes or is there something lost?

Do I assume correctly that the right moment to disable and enable the Tape Job would be right after it finished running and before the next Backup Job has started so that no unwritten Backups remain and can be 'forgotten' afterwards?

Please excuse me if the questions I'm asking are noobish. I am new to veeam and don't want to f up our Backups.

Your answers are appreciated. Thanks.

- piratefish
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Heu Guys,

Same warnings here on my routines.

Any answer will be much appreciated.
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Re: warning in GFS weekly backup

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Hello Rafael,

The warning is raised where there is no new restore points on disk for GFS creation to tape. Are you sure that new backups were created for the scope selected in the tape GFS job? Thank you!
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