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Sep 9, 2015 · Operations

Virtual Synthetics and Synthetic Full Backup in NetWorker 8.x

The article explains how NetWorker 8.0 introduced Synthetic Full Backup, its inefficiencies with Data Domain, and how NetWorker 8.1, NetBackup, and DD Boost add Virtual Synthetics to accelerate synthetic backups by using metadata pointers instead of full data restoration.