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Question about Incremental Backups

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I have setup a backup job (which I'll call Job 1)which does a full backup on Sundays and incrementals on other days.

I've missed one full backup and want to run just the full backup now (ie, on Tuesday, not on Sunday). I scheduled just the full backup to run (which I'll call Job 2) and it's sitting in the backup queue waiting to kick off.

My question is, will the incremental that is set to run on Wednesday (from Job 1) see the full backup from Job 2 and consider it as the full backup from Job 1 and run? Or, will Job 1 run, realise it's full backup failed and continue on????

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks for any help.

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You can run any scheduled task from backup plan manually in any time - select this plan in on 'backup plans' page and click the task name under 'run' menu item. In your case job 2 will recognize job1 archive if specified archive name is the same.