Full vs Active Full?

[kubimike]

so today I was creating new jobs, once the job was created I would right click and hit START. When the job was finished I double clicked it to review what went down. At the top left it says "Full". I found that a bit curious, so I created another new job right clicked and selected "Active full". This time at the top left it says "active full". Is this just a discrepancy ? Both are essentially doing the same thing?

[Gostev]

Sometimes they do, other times they do not (depending on the job settings). When the newly created job runs for the first time, it is always the active full though.

[kubimike]

yeah these were first time jobs, I was just confused as to why it said FULL and not Active full. Ive never seen anything listed in the menus as 'Full' before.

[Shestakov]

Thanks for the details.
There are 2 types of Full backups, synthetic and active. As Anton mentioned above, first job run is always active full.
We will double-check the labels to avoid possible confusions in future.