Synthetic backup (schedule attribute)
The schedule attribute allows a backup to be assembled from previous backups. A synthetic backup may be a synthetic full or a synthetic cumulative incremental backup. The backups include one previous, traditional full backup, and subsequent differential backups, and a cumulative incremental backup. (A traditional full backup means a non-synthesized, full backup.) A client can then use the synthesized backup to restore files and directories in the same way that a client restores from a traditional backup.
Synthetic backups can be written to tape, to disk storage units, or to a combination of both.
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