Synthetic Full Backup Settings

This section describes synthetic full backup settings.

Synthetic full backup functionality is available in the Workstation and Server editions of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.

Parent Tag	Parameter	Description
SyntheticFull	Parent tag that encapsulates information about synthetic full backups created with the backup job.
	Enabled	Parameter specifies if the backup job must periodically create synthetic full backups. Possible values: True — backup job creates synthetic full backups. False — backup job does not create synthetic full backups.
	Days	List of days on which the backup job must create synthetic full backups. Possible values: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Entries in the list are separated with a comma followed by a space (, ), for example: Days="Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday".

Parent Tag

Parameter

Description

SyntheticFull

Parent tag that encapsulates information about synthetic full backups created with the backup job.

Enabled

Parameter specifies if the backup job must periodically create synthetic full backups. Possible values:

True — backup job creates synthetic full backups.

False — backup job does not create synthetic full backups.

Days

List of days on which the backup job must create synthetic full backups. Possible values:

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Entries in the list are separated with a comma followed by a space (, ), for example: Days="Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday".

Example

You want to perform synthetic full backup on Wednesdays and Fridays. The input XML file will contain the following parameters: