Synthetic Full Backups forever without active full

[myoth@m1.com.sg]

This may have discussed before but i could not find the right answer as i will ask again you guys

My setup is vmware and emc DD.
Policy is 7 restore points , incremental with synthetic full on Sat (as default).

Can i run forever with synthetic full? Do i still need Active full?
what will happen to synthetic full if one incremental backup chain between sun-fri has problem?

Thanks.
Max

[Shestakov]

Hello Max and welcome to the community!

Can i run forever with synthetic full?

You can choose either forever forward incremental method or synthetic fulls.

Do i still need Active full?

It depends on Surebackup.

what will happen to synthetic full if one incremental backup chain between sun-fri has problem?

It may affect the full backup recoverability. Depends on the problem type.
Thanks!