Jim, I've been testing it myself. I think you do need to keep that full backup around. The "synthetic" part of a synthetic backup is the consolidation of the full backup and the incrementals into a single image. This is done via duplication.
The test scenario I'm working with is the following: Full backup taken every 4 weeks and kept for 2 months Incremental every night kept for 2 months Synthetic full every week which is kept for 1 month (offsite retention only) This seems to be working fine. I see a "full" backup during in the backup image list for the test client. I've not actually trying doing a restore of this "full" backup to see what tapes are loaded and how long it will take. > I have a bit of an oddity. > > I'm testing Synthetic Backups. > > I have > > Day 1 Full backup. Day 2 Incremental > Day 3 Synthetic-Full Day 4 Incremental (and manually expire the Day 1 Full) > Day 5 Full backup runs > > So it appears I need to keep the Full backup around even though the Synthetic > Full is suppose to be its equivalent. > > The Full backup runs on Day 5 even though I don't have it scheduled. In Fact > Full are manual. Synthetics are scheduled. > > Is this normal? > > Running 6.5.4 +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
