I’ve been using Commvault through the java console for years and backups are what I guess you’d call traditional GFS so even though we’re using global dedupe and synthetic fulls we’re basically running a weekly synthetic full and aux copying all backups from disk to tape each week.
The change rate is really low so most weeks we’re basically coping the exact same multi-TB backup to tape as the week before.
I’m wondering what people see as the pros and cons of things like server plans where it looks like it might push out the synthetic full to once every 30 days.
Or maybe even stick with “manual” schedule policies but look at pushing synthetic fulls out to run a little less often.
Right now I’m just thinking about this because I’m building up a new MA so it’s made me read/explore a little more - basically nothing is broken so I could just leave it as it is but I’m quite conscious that if I span up a new commcell and use the web console we probably wouldn’t end up where we are now 😀
