Hello. We have multiple SQL servers and in order to backup the transaction logs we need to run incremental jobs.
The problem we are having is our Incremental job(s) will not run if the Full job runs past (even a little bit) the Incr start time.
In other words if we have a Full job that runs starts at 900pm and the Incremental starts at 930pm and the Full runs from 900pm to 931pm the Incremental job will not run at all. It will act as if there is no Incremental job.
This is a problem because of this we have to space our backup jobs apart and a lot of time is wasted. Sometimes a Full will run a little longer one night and we will be stuck with incomplete backup for the night.
The server and the agent(s) are all fully up to date (SP2)
We have tried re-creating the backup jobs.
There are no errors in the log pertaining as to why the Incremental job did not run.
The older version that we used to run never had this problem. If a backup job ran a little past the next jobs start time the next job would start as soon as the current job ended.
This is very frustrating for we we have many backup jobs and they take all night. We can not afford to waste any time.
What is the fix for this?
Thanks