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Minidisks That Are Changing During Backups

If CA VM:Backup detects that changes continue to be made to a minidisk after it tries to back up the minidisk a specified number of times, CA VM:Backup either performs a physical backup of the entire minidisk or skips the minidisk and continues to the next one.

By default, CA VM:Backup tries to back up the minidisk three times, then switches to a physical backup. You can specify, in either the backup job template or exception file, how many times CA VM:Backup should try to back up the minidisk and what action CA VM:Backup should take if the minidisk continues to change after the specified number of backup attempts. For more information, see "Specifying Output Guidelines" in the chapter "Managing Backup Job Templates" in the Administration Guide or the OPTIONS record in the Template Programming Interface Guide.