Default Backup Mode changed in clean v8 U2?

[haslund]

I just deployed a new v8 install and immediately installed Update 2 before even launching v8.

I then started to create a new backup job and noticed that the job had backup mode set to: Incremental with both Synthetic Full _AND_ Active Full enabled.
I expected it to be Incremental Forever (no synthetic full and no active full).

Has there been a change?

[foggy]

Yes, default behavior for clean installations has changed in this update.

However, intention was to make just forward incremental with synthetic full the new default, active full is enabled by mistake (the re-uploaded Update 2 will address this). You can disable active full and save the job settings as the new default, so that new jobs have correct default settings.

[haslund]

Interesting.

What do you mean re-uploaded Update 2? When will the Update 2 with this fixed be available? FYI I downloaded Update 2 earlier today.
What was the reason for this change from Forever Forward Incremental to Forward Incremental with Synthetic Fulls?

Thanks!

[emachabert]

You mean the update 2 of the update 2 ?

[veremin]

Nope, just re-uploaded image of Update 2 with the one of the changes being fix for the said issue (active full enabled as default). Thanks.

[vMario156]

Yes, default behavior for clean installations has changed in this update.

However, intention was to make just forward incremental with synthetic full the new default, active full is enabled by mistake (the re-uploaded Update 2 will address this). You can disable active full and save the job settings as the new default, so that new jobs have correct default settings.

Hi Foggy,
can you tell us why the default mode has changed back to forward incremental with synthetic full instead of forever forward incremental?

Regards,
Mario

[Gostev]

Per our support org request. Apparently we have way too many users with huge multi-TB drives backup repositories having poor IOPS capacity. They have basically flooded our support due to having performance issues with transform, and most didn't even need to use the new mode due to having enough capacity for multiple fulls.