SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A SYNTHETIC BACKUP IN A REDUNDANT STORAGE SOLUTION

A method for generating a synthetic backup comprises generating a full backup of a data source at an initial timestamp and generating a first incremental backup of the data source at a first timestamp subsequent to the initial timestamp. The first incremental backup comprises one or more modifications made to data stored in the data source between the initial timestamp and the first timestamp. A synthetic backup is generated from at least the full backup and the first incremental backup by altering one or more file system parameters of the data source and performing forwards reads for the first incremental backup based on the modified file system parameters. In response to determining that forward read data has not been merged into a synthetic backup, the forward read data is stored in a read cache and the full backup is merged with the forward read data in the read cache.