An additional full backup deploys a strategy where an independent copy of the full backup data is created again in addition to the periodic incremental backup. The purpose of additional full backup is provide an additional layer of data redundancy which can ensure the data is readily available for restores at times when other initial or incremental backups cannot be relied on.

The additional full backup resets a backup chain and the subsequent incremental are based on the recent full backup. Running additional full backups frequently may sometimes lead to storage space consumption, you can automatically delete the older full backups chain by setting the appropriate retention policy for the additional full backups or deleting it manually when required.

Enabling the Additional Full Backup

Enable the additional full backup by toggling the slider to the right. Once enabled you have to specify the scheduling for the synthetic merge to happen.

Additional Full Backup Frequency

Specify the Additional full backup frequency. You can specify to run the additional full backups on a weekly or monthly basis.

• If you have scheduled the incremental backups to run Every Few Hours/Min or Daily or After Backup, then you can set the additional full backups frequency as Daily or Weekly or Monthly.
• If you have scheduled the incremental backups to run Weekly or Monthly, then you can set the additional full backups to run on a Weekly or Monthly basis.
• An additional full backup is disabled for Manually & One Time backup schedules
• If you are selecting the additional full backups to run on a daily basis, then you have to select the start time to run the additional full backups.
• If you are selecting the additional full backups to run on a weekly basis, then you have to select a day and start time to run the synthetic merge. You can select one or more days in a week to run the additional full backups.
• If you are selecting the additional full backups to happen on a monthly basis, then you have to select the month, select a day in the month and start time to run the additional full backups. You can select one or more months in a year to run the additional full backups.