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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Use Accelerator to back up virtual machines
  4. Accelerator: full vs. incremental schedules
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Accelerator: full vs. incremental schedules

NetBackup Accelerator supports full and incremental backups.

Note: After an initial full backup, Accelerator backups with a full schedule have about the same effect on I/O and performance as traditional incremental backups. The NetBackup catalog however includes all catalog references that would be made if the backup was a traditional (non-Accelerator) full.

Note:

After upgrade from any of the previous release, If the customer has configured accelerator enabled Hyper-v policy, then optimization will be lost only for first backup.

For virtual machine restore, note the following about full vs. incremental backups with Accelerator:

  • For applications (Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint), NetBackup Accelerator supports Granular Recovery Technology (GRT) restores from full backups only.

  • For any other kind of virtual machine restore, the Accelerator supports full backups and incremental backups.

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