restoring from backup during the transformation process

[mazur1000]

The transformation process of incremental backups in reverse incremental can take a lot of time from a few hours which is rare to several days. Sometimes you need to restore data from a backup, which is in the process of transformation. At the moment, this can not be performed. To do this, you must stop the process of transformation (or stop button, or complete the appropriate process). Such an option would even be acceptable, because it did not seem to spoil the backups, if there was an opportunity to continue the transformation after stopping. But such a possibility either, for this you need to create additional incremental copy that will add to the existing remaining time of transformation several days. Thus lacking any windows backup.
It is certainly possible to split the backup into smaller pieces, but it is not convenient to manage backups and as a result will take a few more places.
Please consider to create a button type PAUSE during the transformation process, and perhaps during the actual backup, during which the press will have the option of restoring from a backup.

[veremin]

Hi Alex, given that transformation activity of reversed incremental backup hours or even days, haven't you thought about utilizing forward incremental backup mode, instead, since it puts less load on target repository? Thanks.

[mazur1000]

Thought, but the question of additional storage complete copies, each with 10 TB

[veremin]

I was wondering because the functionality you're asking for seems to address not a root cause of the problem, but a consequence of it, with the root cause being inability of target storage to cope with reversed incremental activity well.

[mazur1000]

Maybe so, but the options are different and the backup may be required at any time, for example, needs to be restored already reserved a virtual machine from a full backup, which is still going.

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you copy these backup files to any other location (just to be on the safe side if you lose your primary backup repository)? If this is the case, then you can potentially run a restore job from that location.

[mazur1000]

No, I do not copy these files to another location. I do direct backups to multiple storage locations. There is another problem.