This section includes the following topics:

• About synthetic backups

• Recommendations for synthetic backups

• 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

• Checkpoint restart 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 using OpenStorage

• Optimized synthetic backups for deduplication