Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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Validating VSF backups

You can validate VSF backups by using the mminfo command, the Media window of the Administration interface, and the savegrp logs.

Validating VSF backups with the mminfo command

The following table lists the mminfo commands with applicable switches for validating VSF backups.

Table 1. mminfo commands for VSF backup validation
Command with switches	Description
mminfo –aS	Shows detailed information about synthetic full backups, including information about the save sets used to form the synthetic full backup.
mminfo –q syntheticfull –c `client` -N `save_set`	Queries all synthetic full save sets for the specified `client` and `save_set`.

Validating VSF backups in the Media window of the Administration interface

When you search for save sets in the Media window of the Administration interface, you can limit the save set results to synthetic full and VSF save sets by selecting the Synthetic Full checkbox on the Query Save Set tab. Searching for save sets provides instructions.

Validating VSF backups in the savegrp logs

The following excerpt from the policy log file illustrates the type of messages NetWorker displays when performing VSF backups or traditional synthetic full backups, or when performing a traditional synthetic full backup because the VSF backup requirements are not met:

1707:97860:nsrconsolidate: Synthetic full save set hostname:/sat-tree at savetime 1358188522 was created by using non-virtual synthetic mode 95773:nsrrecopy: Virtual synthetic succeeded for hostname:/test1