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How Makeup Jobs Work for Synthetic Full Backup

On the synthetic full backup day, if some incremental sessions finished but other incremental sessions failed, a normal makeup job for the failed client agent is submitted. A data synthetic job for synthesizing all finished sessions is also submitted. If the makeup job for the failed client agent is finished, it creates the incremental sessions for the failed client agent, and then submits another data synthetic job for synthesizing the failed client agent.