Hi, We noticed that some Full backup jobs are missing for one of our PostgreSQL clients.
Those are the Full backup jobs for the months: February, March, April, May and August.
Doing another query including aged data we have:
These Full backup jobs with one or more errors completed with errors that our DBA team recognized as harmless, but Does the Commvault software not honor extended retention time for backup jobs completed with errors?
This may explain why we didn't find the Full backup jobs for the months mentioned above and, In this case, the backups jobs for the months of April and August will expire soon.
Best answer by Mike Struening RETIRED
If you change that setting to a 1, then Extended Retention will ignore CWE and keep jobs as if they completed just fine.
Leaving it as 0 means that any CWE jobs will not be kept for Extended Retention.
The reason is that the component of the backup that failed (hence, the CWE) might bar this backup from doing a full restore. Better to err on the side of caution and not keep that job (by default).
You can change it to a 1 and (going forward) all CWE jobs will be eligible for Extended Retention.
Conversely, you can find out why they are CWE and address that directly.
The next thing to check is in Control Panel > Media Management.
Can you see what this is set to?
Ignore Completed With Errors job option for Extended Retention calculations
Definition: Specifies whether or not to ignore the Completed With Errors job option for Extended Retention calculations.
Default Value: 0
Range: 0 (No) or 1 (Yes)
When the value is set to '1', the current value set for the Completed with Errors job in the agents' database is ignored for extended retention calculations. When the value is set to '0', the current value set for the Completed with Errors job is honored for extended retention calculations.
Usage: Administrator may hold extended retention Jobs to a higher standard than those used to determine normal media/retention cycle.
The next thing to check is in Control Panel > Media Management.
Can you see what this is set to?
Ignore Completed With Errors job option for Extended Retention calculations
Definition: Specifies whether or not to ignore the Completed With Errors job option for Extended Retention calculations.
Default Value: 0
Range: 0 (No) or 1 (Yes)
When the value is set to '1', the current value set for the Completed with Errors job in the agents' database is ignored for extended retention calculations. When the value is set to '0', the current value set for the Completed with Errors job is honored for extended retention calculations.
Usage: Administrator may hold extended retention Jobs to a higher standard than those used to determine normal media/retention cycle.
If you change that setting to a 1, then Extended Retention will ignore CWE and keep jobs as if they completed just fine.
Leaving it as 0 means that any CWE jobs will not be kept for Extended Retention.
The reason is that the component of the backup that failed (hence, the CWE) might bar this backup from doing a full restore. Better to err on the side of caution and not keep that job (by default).
You can change it to a 1 and (going forward) all CWE jobs will be eligible for Extended Retention.
Conversely, you can find out why they are CWE and address that directly.
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