Run VIRSA/ZVFATBAK to generate missed log

Hello experts, we had an upgrade a couple weeks ago and we had to put the VIRSA/ZVFATBAK job on hold. Because of this we have a couple of FF logons missing data. We have the "BACKGROUND JOB WAS NOT SCHEDULED/LOG & FILE NOT YET GENERATED" error. Usually I can run job immediately after the upgrade and gather this missed data, however this time we forgot and now trying to go back 3 weeks ago.
I thought since I can still see the data in STAD (ST03) I should be able to get VIRSA/ZVFATBAK to run and find the data. This is not the case this time. Can anyone confirm its too late to generate these missed logs?
Thanks
Dave Wood

Hi David,
If you see that logs are missing for certain date and time then you can run the report /VIRSA/ZVFATBAK with date and time for which logs where missing, see sap note - 1142312 (read this to understand what start & read time should be given to run the report)
Please be informed that the report will fetch data from STAT and CDHDR, CDPOS only if the data exists in these for the given date and time. If the data has been purged from STAT for that period then its not possible to get the logs.
Also note this point - As per design, manual FF log update considers only the firefighter ids
assigned to the user who is triggering the update through the firefighter dashboard. Whereas the scheduled background job considers all the FFIDs for a particular time period.
Best Regards,
Sirish Gullapalli.

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