Limitation on the Chain of Incremental Recovery Points

Product version: 10.8, 10.9

Last modified: 23 January 2024

Limitation

The following recovery options are disabled for the backup chain that has incremental recovery points exceeding the limit of 256:

  • Granular recovery for individual files

  • Object recovery for Microsoft Exchange

  • Object recovery for Microsoft SQL Server

  • Object recovery for Microsoft Active Directory

  • Universal object recovery

  • Flash VM boot for VMware/Hyper-V.

The following info text is displayed:

The action is not supported for the recovery point.

Background

If a backup chain of incremental recovery points exceeds 256, the recovery points in the chain are not supported for File and/or Object, Universal Object, and Flash boot recovery jobs.

This limitation applies to both Incremental with full and Forever incremental data storage types.

Solution

To resolve this issue, remove "redundant" recovery points so that the chain size becomes less than 256.