BE 16 Synthetic Backups questions?? can anyone help?
My question is in regards to Synthetic Backups and their requirement on the baseline backup. We will be using the tape method (not disk storage method) which will require the baseline backup image t...
The first synthetic full combines the baseline backup with one or more synthetic enabled, incremental backups
All subsequent synthetic full backups combine the previous synthetic full wit one of more synthetic enabled, incremental backups
A point to be aware of: if your overall backup is a huge number of files, then we have seen situations where the gathering of the synthetic information, whilst running the incremental backup job, makes this job exceedingly long - even to the point where there is no benefit to using the synthetic mechanism. As such I strongly suggest doing proof of concept tests with Backup Exec in trialware and before implementing as a final solution.
