Tape • Re: Q: Is a daily Backup Tape ALWAYS a stand-alone Backup, even if forward incremental is used

Understood that there is some convenience for Tape jobs with Reverse incremental -- this use case is not lost on us and was a common point brought up with discussing deprecating Reverse Incremental, so the point is not lost here; stay tuned on future releases as this is definitely a situation we don't want to leave unaddressed.

Is there any update on this?

Also looking to cope with the loss of reverse incremental backups to tape.

Backup is to a simple SMB share on a low-end NAS (no REFS support). Having trawled through the various discussions about this so far, my options seem to be:

• Forever Reverse Incremental - Although we do health checks, I'm not keen on this and prefer to do a periodic full backup.

• Forward Incremental with Synthetic Full (and monthly Active Full) - Not sure how well a low-end NAS will perform creating synthetic fulls.

• Create a Copy Job using the server as a repo, dumping that backup to tape then deleting the backup (to save space) using powershell - This avoids the performance impact of read and writing at the same time on the NAS and would at least give us faster tape backup as the NAS throughput is less than the tape drive is capable of.

Am I missing anything? Any thoughts on the best option (replacing the NAS is not a possibility ATM)?

Statistics: Posted by JPMS — Sep 04, 2025 5:24 am

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