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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Synthetic backups
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Synthetic backups

This section includes the following topics:
  • About synthetic backups

  • Recommendations for synthetic backups and restores

  • Synthetic full backups

  • Synthetic cumulative incremental backups

  • Schedules that must appear in a policy for synthetic backups

  • Adding clients to a policy for synthetic backups

  • Change journal and synthesized backups

  • True image restore and synthesized backups

  • Displaying synthetic backups in the Activity Monitor

  • Logs produced during synthetic backups

  • Synthetic backups and directory and file attributes

  • Using the multiple copy synthetic backups method

  • Optimized synthetic backups

  • Optimized synthetic backups for deduplication

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