always full backup for tapes

[infused]

Is it possible to force Veeam to always do a full backup for tape backups linked to backup jobs? I assume if I link to VM this will be the case, but here I want to copy the whole backup chain (2 fulls + incremental, or just the latest full). For some reason, I'm only getting incremental data copied.

[HannesK]

Hello,
if you need a daily full to tape, there are several options

1) use forward incremental forever backup chain without synthetic / active full. then use a simple media pool and synthesize full every day
2) use forward incremental with daily synthetic full (for disk space consumption reasons, only do that on REFS / XFS)
3) use reverse incremental

Synthesizing full every day does only work in forever incremental mode.

Best regards,
Hannes

[karsten123]

Hi Hannes,

is there anything new or is it still the way to go?

Tia
Karsten

[HannesK]

Hello,
it's still the way to go.

Best regards
Hannes

[karsten123]

I think, i will go with separate jobs for every single day. Everything else is a timing mess.
And reverse incremental is no option. Im still mad that i have to use forever forward inc.
This is far from reliable for the mission „daily full“.

With daily synth full for the source job i am able to use GFS media pool and get daily full to tape?

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes, if there are only full backups, then tape will write only full backups to tape. Tape jobs do not have the capability to extract incremental changes from a full backup.

Best regards
Hannes