CBergen, You're not the only one that would like some enlightenment...I mean, on synthetics backups. I don't understand why incrementals have to be continuously run at all. As I understand it, that is the point of synthetic backups as to have a full and just backup the changes from that point forward with synthetics? That is the way TSM's synthetic backups work with the option of how many 'versions' to retain. I'm on 5.1 (getting ready to upgrade to 6.5.1) so maybe synthetics are different in 6.x? What is exactly done between the required incrementals and the synthetics? Does each synthetic combine the previous two incrementals and how; as a differential and then expire the two tapes that were used for the incrementals (just an example if two were used)or delete the incrementals images on the tapes OR disk?
Regards, Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dbergen Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:20 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question about synthetic backups When I attempt a synthetic backup and the most recent backup of the client is a full backup nothing happens. Nothing happens because Netbackup says there was no incremental backup to analyze. My question is: So What? I want another full backup, to a completely different volume pool, shouldn't Netbackup realize that the volume pool is different and run the synthetic backup again? Hopefully someone can tell me what I am doing wrong here. Thanks, dbergen +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
