Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Support for directives with synthetic full backups

You can use the compressasm and aes (encryption) directives with synthetic full backups.

When using directives with synthetic full backups, consider the following:

• If directives were applied to save sets during the full and incremental backups that are part of the synthetic full backup, the synthetic full backup does not remove those directives.
• Any directives, including the compressasm and aes directives, that were applied to the full and incremental backups that are part of the synthetic full backup are not applied again.
• Do not use directives for synthetic full backups that are stored on a Data Domain device.
• Unsupported directives are ignored during a synthetic full backup.

The UNIX man page and the NetWorker Command Reference Guide provides detailed information about the nsrconsolidate command.