>The description of this feature says "Synthetic backups are automatically
>created from a traditional (non-synthesized) full backup and any number
>of incrementals.."
>
>If a synthetic full requires a "traditional" full as a starting point,
>then you can never achieve the goal of avoiding multiple backups of non-
>changing data.  The only way to do that is to allow a synthetic full to
>be based off of another synthetic full.  Is this possible?

I had asked our Veritas rep that question a couple weeks back.  After checking
with the engineers he said that yes it is possible.

It wouldn't be a very useful feature (at least to us) if it didn't allow that.

Now to decide to go to 5.0 (from 3.4) before or after Vision.

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Jeff Bryer                              bryer AT sfu DOT ca
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Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University