Description

This article explains the steps in resolving the issue where scheduled device backup in Junos space fails.

Symptoms

Scheduled device backup in Junos space fails with below error:

 

" Device no longer exists"

Solution

This issue may occur where scheduled device backup has been enabled and later we might have deleted and re-discovered the device with different IP and the scheduled job still consider the old device IP and fails with the error.

 

This can be resolved by performing the below steps:

 

Cancel the old scheduled device backup job and initiate a new scheduled job.

Modification History

2024-10-25 : Article Created

2025-12-09 : Minor change and visibility changed.