Merging backup chains

[James_DART]

Hi,

I have had a incremental with periodic synthetic fulls job running for a two weeks, resulting in two separate chains consisting (on disk) of:

[VBK] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [VBK] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib]

Is it possible to merge these these into a single chain? The end result I'd like to achieve is:

[VBK] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib]

I've spent a bit of time searching through the forums and found this post from 2012 where Gostev says it isn't possible, but I wasn't sure if he meant it wasn't technically possible or logically possible. It seems like it should be and just wanted to clarify.

Thank you!

[Gostev]

Hello!

There's simply no such functionality in the product, so I'm not sure if it qualifies for "technically" or "logically" impossible

What you can do is transform the above into:
[vrb] [vrb] [vrb] [vrb] [vrb] [vrb] [VBK] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib] [vib]

This can be done by enabling "transform previous chains into rollbacks" option in the advanced job settings.

Thanks!

[James_DART]

OK great, I'll take that a look at transforming these into rollbacks. Thanks Gostev!