Synthetic Full backup for AWS VTL

[Rishi]

Hello,

I am looking to implement VTL using AWS.

My queries:
1. Is synthetic full backup possible? coz for us it does't make sense to copy full backups regularly over wire.
2. Can i use snowball to do initial seeding?

Any best practices /pitfalls?

Thanks in advance!

[Dima P.]

Hi Rishi.

Virtual full on tape (or synthesized full) is created from an incremental on disk, so it does not matter which library, standalone drive or VTL is used as a target. For the deployment take a look at this White Paper Veeam Backup & Replication using AWS VTL Gateway Deployment Guide - it should have most of the questions answered. Cheers!

[veremin]

Can i use snowball to do initial seeding?

It doesn't seem to be possible, as VTL doesn't support that. Thanks.

[DavidReimers]

I've come across a similar scenario.

We are currently performing reverse-incremental jobs that backup our VMs (running on ESXi) to tape each night.
We are in the process of implementing (a) Nutanix, which means our backups will now be forward-incremental and (b) an AWS VTL.

We want each physical tape and each AWS tape to be a full backup (so we aren't reliant on a chain of tapes to restore from).

If we perform "full" backups into a tape job, will a tape job on day 5 (5 days after the first full backup to disk, with days 2-5 being increments) backup only the original full backup from day 1, or will it create a synthetic full of days 1 + 2 +3 + 4 + 5?

[veremin]

You can enable forward forever incremental for backup job and instruct backup to tape job to create virtual full backup on Friday (assume it's day 5 in your backup schedule). This way each week tape job will create one full restore point. Thanks!