System Recovery; unscheduled jobs do not honour the "Start a new recovery point set" setting

Problem

With Veritas System Recovery (VSR) you are able to create a job without a schedule.
At the same time you can launch any job from outside the VSR GUI by using the VSR icon in the task bar.

When using both the above options together; an unscheduled job and launching the job from the task bar; the job setting of "Start a new recovery point set", will be ignored and all the jobs launched this way will be incremental backups.

Fig1: Job creation without schedule:



Fig 2: Start a job from the task bar:



 

Error Message

None; the manually launched job will run as Incremental
 

Cause

Currently System Recovery only honours the setting "Start a new recovery point set"  for scheduled jobs.
 

Solution

This issue is resolved in System Recovery 23.1


Workaround:

Schedule the job

OR

At the required time interval for a new Recovery Point Set; use the VSR Graphical User Interface (GUI) to launch the job.

To do this, select “Run Now” in the “Run or Manage Backup” tab in the VSR GUI.