synthetic full only - is this a safe scenario?

[tym]

Hi,

our full backups have a total amount of 40tb. We want to hold as many restore points as possible (90 atm), so we decided to do only one full backup and then incremental forever afterwards. incrementals are converted into reverse incrementals once a week. Full backup is copied to tape once a month.

Our backup storage cannot hold two full backups at once, So we are not able to defragment/compact the full backup.
My question would be: is this a supported scenario? Can we rely on the synthetic backup, or is it inevitable to do "real" full backups periodically?

Thanks in advance

Best,
Tim

[veremin]

I'd say it's ok, given you periodically run both SureBackup and health check operations and have additional copy of backup data on tapes. Thanks.