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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk
  3. Configuring OpenStorage in NetBackup
  4. Configuring OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups
Veritas NetBackup™ OpenStorage Solutions Guide for Disk

Configuring OpenStorage optimized synthetic backups

Use the following procedure to configure optimized synthetic backups.

If NetBackup cannot produce the optimized synthetic backup, NetBackup creates the more data-movement intensive synthetic backup.

To configure optimized synthetic backup

  1. Configure a Standard or MS-Windows backup policy.
  2. Select the Synthetic backup attribute on the Schedule Attribute tab.

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