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 r17 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.