Hi,
Here is my situation :
For a specific server plan, a synthetic full is missing for July and August. We have extended retention for this server plan on AirGap so that one full by month is kept for a year. I have Synthetic full with all VMs of the subclient for : May, June and September but I don't have Synthetic full for : July and August. The difference between these months is that we added a virtual machine in July and August. At the time of addition, there are full backups to back up only the virtual machine we just added.
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Here is the answer of the support :
When a new VM is added to a subclient, Commvault automatically will take a full backup for that VM during the next scheduled backup.
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If, during July and August, the synthetic full backup for the subclient was not triggered or completed, it may be because the schedule detected that a full backup was required for the newly added VMs. As a result, the synthetic full operation was skipped for those months and instead a full backup was taken.
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Here is my question for you :
What do you think of this behavior when using plans and not setting up a specific schedule to run the Synthetic full? Do you think it's normal that when you add a virtual machine to a VM group and a full backup runs for it, this will result in there being no full backup for the other virtual machines in the month?
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For us, we don't think this behavior is ideal because it breaks the backup cycle and the principle of having a monthly full backup every month for a year.
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Thank you
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