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:
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Granular recovery for individual files
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Object recovery for Microsoft Exchange
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Object recovery for Microsoft SQL Server
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Object recovery for Microsoft Active Directory
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Universal object recovery
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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.