Problems running Active Full - V8.0.0.2021 Enterprise

[carlk]

I have a problem in that the Active fulls never run, incremental backups just continue to be made.

I am currently running Forward Incremental backups with active full once per week. I have the jobs setup so that the "First" job starts at 6pm everyday. I have it setup to run Active Fulls on Saturday. I have each subsequent job set to start after the previous. There is 6 of these forward incremental jobs, I then run 6 Backup to Tape jobs. Here is what the jobs list looks like:

Job1, Vmware Backup, starts 6pm Daily
Job2, Vmware Backup, starts after Job1
Job3, Vmware Backup, starts after Job2
Job4, Vmware Backup, starts after Job3
Job5, Vmware Backup, starts after Job4
Job6, Vmware Backup, starts after Job5
Job7, Tape Backup, starts after Job6
Job8, Tape Backup, starts after Job7
Job9, Tape Backup, starts after Job8
Job10, Tape Backup, starts after Job9
Job11, Tape Backup, starts after Job10
Job12, Tape Backup, starts after Job11

Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks In Advance

[Gostev]

Hi, please include a support case ID, as requested when you click New Topic (otherwise, this topic will be removed by moderators). Scheduler log review will be required to determine the reason for your issue.

However, I can name at least one thing that your are doing wrong, and that is chaining your VMware backup jobs. We advise highly against using chaining (please search for the existing discussions for more info). Chaining may result in multiple issues when things do not go as planned.

Thanks!

[carlk]

Support Case is: 00931529

[veremin]

Just a quick guess - isn't that possible that run of the fist job had taken longer, and as the result the subsequent jobs started not on Saturday, but on Sunday, instead, and no increments were created due to that?