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Synthetic Full Backup

Synthetic full backup lets you synthesize a previous full session and its subsequent incremental sessions to a full backup 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 an on-demand synthetic full backup job 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 disk staging.
• Utilize disaster recovery and Point-in-Time restoration; you can perform a disaster recovery using a synthetic full backup session without referring to the previous full/incremental sessions.
• Perform point-in-time restores.

Synthetic full backup is supported on the following applications and platforms:

• Client Agent for Windows--All Windows platforms supported by the CA ARCserve Backup Client Agent for Windows.
• CA ARCserve Backup server component--All operating systems supported by the CA ARCserve Backup base product.

  Note: Synthetic Full Backup is a Job type that you can submit from primary servers, member servers, and stand-alone servers.

• You can submit synthetic full backup jobs to only disk staging and data deduplication devices. However, you can migrate synthetic full backup sessions to tape media, cloud storage, and disk devices using disk staging operations.

Be aware of the following:

• If a synthetic full backup contains data from other agents (for example, database agents, application agents, and agents from previous releases), CA ARCserve Backup synthesizes only data supported by this release of the Client Agent for Windows. When synthetic full backup jobs that contain data from the other agents run, CA ARCserve Backup applies the original scheduled methods to the other agents.
• Detailed information about synthetic full backups can be viewed in the Job Backup Status Report, Node Backup Status Report, and Total Protection Size Reports on the Dashboard.
• Note: To perform synthetic full backup jobs, you must install and license CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Open Files on the computers that you want to back up.