If it's committed to the last full backup, you could theoretically run a full backup only once per VM and run incrementals for years to come

So, considering how Synthetic Backup works, The largest file will be "touched" every backup-cycle.Gostev wrote:Tom is correct, Veeam Synthetic Backup Explained
Correct, and not just some "future release far far away" - we are already developing this functionality, so this should be out in just a few months.tsightler wrote:Veeam has stated that they will include a "true" incremental in a future version of the product. This will certainly help the situation for those of us that need to be able to get our backups to tape each night.
Right, but since I'm not a Veeam representative or anything I didn't want to comment on the "when". I think this feature has some great potential especially if you guys go forward with another feature I've heard you mention in another thread, specifically the idea of a "consolidate helper" to perhaps combine rollbacks to get less granular as they age. If you guys do create a "consolidate" type feature, it could also be used to roll a full backup with incrementals "forward". You could run a full, then a week of incrementals, and then, instead of running another full, simply "consolidate" all of the incrementals into the previous full to create the new "synthetic full". Don't know if you thought about that already, and I'm not expecting something like that in the next release or anything, but if something like this could be put on the drawing board, it would be absolutely perfect for us.Gostev wrote: Correct, and not just some "future release far far away" - we are already developing this functionality, so this should be out in just a few months.
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