Any response anyone? Can no one explain how different versions of the same file are treated in a full synthetic backup per the above scenario?
This is one of my biggest gripes with Veeam, no adequate explanation for simple everyday issues such as this. We find tons of info online explaining that a synthetic full backup merges the last full backup and all the incremental backups that have occurred since then, but NO DETAILS WHATSOEVER as to what that actually means. Even those flimsy animations fail to provide adequate clarity. I've even sat through hours of YouTube tutorials from the Veeam channel, and nada, nichts, NOTHING! They just make blanket statements and YOU have to figure out on your own through days of trial and error how the algorithm that merges all the incremental backups work. Problem is, no one has several days time to sit down and figure this out when you're running a dozen servers with 40TB of backup data.
This is one of my biggest gripes with Veeam, no adequate explanation for simple everyday issues such as this. We find tons of info online explaining that a synthetic full backup merges the last full backup and all the incremental backups that have occurred since then, but NO DETAILS WHATSOEVER as to what that actually means. Even those flimsy animations fail to provide adequate clarity. I've even sat through hours of YouTube tutorials from the Veeam channel, and nada, nichts, NOTHING! They just make blanket statements and YOU have to figure out on your own through days of trial and error how the algorithm that merges all the incremental backups work. Problem is, no one has several days time to sit down and figure this out when you're running a dozen servers with 40TB of backup data.
Statistics: Posted by Hepkat — Oct 23, 2025 11:07 am
