GFS - Synth full, how tape job will react?

[don.cordos]

I'm a bit confused how tape job will behave in this scenario:

My source job synth full its scheaduled to start at 03:00 saturday and will finish arround 12:00.
GFS tape weekly is scheaduled at sunday, with GFS Scan at 00:00.

In this case weekly tape job at sunday should backup .vbk from saturday, or it will waite for sunday incremental job that will start at 03:00, and will create synth full on tape from it?

[PetrM]

Hello,

I think it's worth trying to check "Process the most recent restore point instead of waiting" option if you don't want to suspend tape job until today's backup becomes available.

Thanks!

[mkretzer]

Keep in mind that with V10 tape job will be much faster backing up synth full to tape then vbk!

[don.cordos]

Thanks
"Process the most recent restore point instead of waiting" option should do a trick. I'll made some tests and share results.