ContributionsMost RecentMost LikesSolutionsMoving to Synthetic backups Hi All, Just beginning to investigate Full Synthetic backups to help reduce our backup window - our file server (over a million files) now takes roughly 19 hours to both backup and verify to a Dedupe disk. Our current policy incrementally backs up daily (Mon-Thurs) with a full weekly backups on Friday and and a full monthly on the last Friday of the month. Corresponding jobs duplicate these backups to tape. I have a couple of queries that I wonder if anyone can help with; 1 -I've undertand Synthetic jobs only work with file system backups - can anyone recommend a way to setup polices to account for VM/SQL/Exchange backups with minimal complication? 2 - How would I ensure that this mixture of backups are duplicated to the same tape every day? I want our tapes to continue to have either the incremental or full backups of everything and be automatically ejected at the end. 3 - I've read that Synthetic backups to Dedupe storage is not supported, at least in older version of BE; is that still true for version 20.3? I'm so used to theGrandfather-father-son way of doing things - am I looking at this in the wrong way? If anyone can help or point me in the right direction it's appreciated. TIA Exchange RSG Restores Hi All, Can anyoneplease confirm that for Backup Exec 2010 R1 you can only restorean entire Mailbox Database to an Exchange recovery storage group? Many thanks in advance.