stuartm Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Can someone tell me what Retrospects version of Synthetic backups are? Snapshop transfers? Backupset transfers? Remember seeing it somewhere in some documentation but cant locate it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHnee Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 From the kb glossary: synthetic full Transferring all the most current Snapshots copies the most recent Snapshot for each volume(or subvolume) in the active Snapshots list. The result is what EMC calls a “synthetic full†backup. After the transfer, the destination Backup Set contains the same data it would after a full backup, at that point in time, to a new Backup Set. A synthetic full backup is the equivalent of a full backup done at the time of the most recent Snapshots. It does not include files that are new or changed since the date and time of those Snapshots, nor does it include older versions of files contained in non-current Snapshots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHnee Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 From the Retrospect data sheet http://emcinsignia.com/assets/ds_win76bus_en.pdf For off-site protection, create synthetic full sets of tapes by rapidly streaming data from the backup disk, eliminating the need to perform another backup over the network so applications and users remain unaffected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHnee Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 So, this is something you can do by Snapshot Transfer with Retrospect for Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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