Hello everyone
I have read across a lot of discussion threads and solution links, but somehow I just don't this szenario to work without error messages.
I have one back job that backs up about 8 VMs during the vCenter Server with GRT. On one of the VMs I have a MS SQL Server with databases configured to maintain transaction logs.
So the backup is running fine, but everytime I get the follwing exception:
V-79-57344-38728 - The SQL database 'DATABASE' on virtual machine '\(DC)ASM(DC)\vm\DB-Servers\db004' is configured to maintain transaction logs, but transaction log backups are not being performed. Not backing up the transaction log results in the log growing in size until it fills all available disk space. You should either schedule regular log backups or change the database to the simple recovery mode.
My Google searches brought up this article https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/backup-exec-2012-sql-transaction-log-backups.
So I created another job using the db-server directly (not via vCenter) just backing up the SQL database as recommended in the article above and also in this Tech Note http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH137587
When running this job (full backup) the first time I receive the same error as above:
V-79-57344-38728 - The SQL database 'DATABASE' on virtual machine '\(DC)ASM(DC)\vm\DB-Servers\db004' is configured to maintain transaction logs, but transaction log backups are not being performed. Not backing up the transaction log results in the log growing in size until it fills all available disk space. You should either schedule regular log backups or change the database to the simple recovery mode.
When I run the incremental backups I get this error:
V-79-57344-867 - The last Full backup of database DATABASE was not made by this application. Run a new Full backup, then run this job again.
From what I understand, the error occurs, because after the full backup of the database only, the GRT-backup is run that makes another full backup of the database, and after that, the incremental job fails.
Can someone please tell me exactly:
How many jobs do I need?
How should they be configured?
How should they be scheduled? Which jobs runs first etc.
I really appreciate you help, since it seems that I just don't understand all the other related articles and tech notes.
Thanks a lot!
Nadine