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Perform Disaster Recovery Using a Synthetic Full Backup Session

You can perform disaster recovery using a synthetic full backup session. This can be done after the synthetic full backup is run since a synthetic full backup synthesizes a previous full backup session and all incremental sessions to a full session, without the need to utilize previous incremental or differential backups.

Note: Synthetic full backup is only supported on r16 or higher Windows Client Agents.

To perform disaster recovery using a synthetic full backup session

1. Run a synthetic full backup using the GFS rotation or custom rotation methods.
2. Create a machine-specific disk after the synthetic full backup is run.

   The machine-specific disk will contain information about the backup that was performed before the MSD was created.

   If you configure an alternate location, you can also create machine-specific disks before you perform disaster recovery.

3. Run the disaster recovery process.

   Note: The Disaster Recovery Option will not automatically scan any additional sessions that are backed up after you create machine specific disks.

   The Disaster Recovery Option automatically restores the session shown in the list.