Using Synthetic Full Backup › Overview of Synthetic Full Backup
Overview of Synthetic Full Backup
Synthetic full backup (SFB) lets you synthesize a previous full session and its subsequent incremental sessions to a full session.
Using the synthetic full backup option you can:
- Enable synthetic full backup and select the synthetic schedule.
- Synthesize incremental sessions to a new synthetic full backup session.
- Generate a real full backup based on the synthetic schedule for data assurance.
- Run a real full backup on the next full backup day without waiting for the scheduled full backup to run.
- Submit on demand synthetic full backups without waiting for the scheduled data synthetic job to run.
- Allow scans of synthetic full backup sessions for data assurance.
- Migrate synthetic full backup sessions to tape, cloud, and disk devices using D2D2T.
- Perform point-in-time restores.
- Use the disaster recovery processes and point-in-time restores to recover data. Arcserve Backup lets you perform a disaster recovery using a synthetic full backup session without referring to the previous full or incremental sessions.
SFB is supported on the following applications and platforms:
- Client Agent - All platforms that Arcserve Backup for Windows Client Agent supports. SFB is only applicable to r16 or higher Windows Client Agents (not UNIX/Linux).
- Server - All platforms that Arcserve Backup server supports. Synthetic full backup is a 'job type' that you can submit on any Arcserve Backup r16 servers, primary server, member server, or standalone server.
- Note: To perform synthetic full backup jobs, you must install and license Arcserve Backup Agent for Open Files on the computers that you want to back up.
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