For some reason we have some tenants’ clients (VSA and File system) that have not been running synthetic full (set for weekly and part of plans).
Is there a way we can create retrospective synthetic backups? We need to retain monthly backups for 1 year. Currently, we have the initial full and lots of incremental backup which of course won’t age until cycles/days are complete.
Best answer by Mike Struening RETIRED
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Hey
Not sure I understand what you’re looking to do. If you kick off a Synth Full now, the operation will look at the last full and all of the Incrementals since and create a Full based on the files that are there now.
Are you looking for a Synth Full that is really a subset of the entire Incremental list? or something else?
You are 100% correct about the Data Aging issue….if there’s no new full (or cessation of jobs) then the Days count will just keep going. You need regular Fulls to start the count anew.
Let me know exactly what you are hoping to accomplish and I’ll advise accordingly.
Thanks!
Hi Mike thanks for the reply. The issue with running a synth now is, as you say, all the incrementals will get rolled into a full. We would be missing monthly full images for the last n months.
Ideally I’d like to select an incremental job and have CV run a synthetic at that point in time or have the option when running a synthetic to say what date and time to use.
I suspect the answer is no but thought I’d throw it out there just in case it is possible somehow. Beyond that, our bigger issue will be why the synthetic schedule jobs aren’t running (probably a support call).
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I asked around on the synth full and there is no option. One thing to consider is that you’d be adding a Full into the middle of some existing Incs, whereas those incs would not really be based on that interrupting Synth. Might not be a big issue, but definitely something to consider. Getting a Synth Full to run now would be the better option (and only option).
For your main issue, “why didn’t the synth full run?”, run a Job summary report and see what happened to the scheduled job. I am going to take an educated guess and say that there was an Incremental already running and the Synth full failed as a result. We have options for that if that was indeed the case.
I’ll split that reply off into a new thread for you so we can trace separate answers.
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