And you're verifying that the original full does not need to be kept around?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Crowey Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Synthetic Backups Gidday, I've been running synthetics for nearly two years now to backup about 3/3.5 TBs and have to say has generally run extremely well. Within the same policy I have 3 schedules. The first is an ad-hoc full - I used this to create the first full backup, and on the very few occasions when the synthetic has stuffed up and I needed to start again. It has a 1 month retention. Second is a daily differential that runs every three hours and goes to disc. They have a two week retention period. Lastly, I have the synthetic full backup. Runs every saturday and also has a 1 month retention. Like I said, it occasionaly stuffs up, but works 99% of the time, and appears to run 3 to 4 times faster than a traditional full. I HIGHLY recommend it. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |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 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
