Configuring automatic test run jobs for backup jobs

Test run jobs attempt to determine if a scheduled backup job could possibly fail when you run it. When you run a test job, no data is backed up. Instead, Backup Exec checks your storage capacity, credentials, and media to find potential errors. If there is an error, the job continues to run until it is completed. The error appears in the job log. You can also configure Backup Exec to send a notification to a designated recipient.

During a test run job, the following things may cause a job to fail:

A test run job checks the media capacity that is available for the selected job. However, you can check if there is enough available media for multiple test run jobs in the Test Run Results Report.

See Test Run Results report.

You can manually run a test run job at any time.

See Running a test run job manually.

You can also configure test run jobs to run automatically before your scheduled backup jobs as a default setting. If you do not want to run a test run job for a particular backup job, you can override the default setting when you create the backup job. You do not have to enable test run jobs as a default for all backup jobs, however. If you want to run test run jobs only for specific backup jobs, you can configure the test run job when you create those backup jobs.

To configure automatic test run jobs for backup jobs

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Changing default backup job settings

Backing up data