If you've ever been to a restaurant and ordered a pizza, you know that the first slice is always the best. That's because it's the freshest, most delicious slice. The second slice is just as tasty, but it's not relatively new. It's a little chewier, and maybe the sauce has cooled off. The third slice is still good but could be better than the first two. This same principle applies to synthetic backups: they're made up of two or more files merged through a process called "synthesis". The first time an application synthesizes a backup file, it's like ordering that first slice of pizza. It contains all of the data from your last full backup plus all of the data from any incremental backups since then. Every subsequent time you run that same synthetic backup command; it'll only include new changes from your last full backup plus any changes made since then. Each successive synthetic backup will be smaller than its predecessor until it eventually stops growing. It makes synthetic backups great for saving space on your hard drive (and ensuring that you have everything backed up). You're on a tight schedule and have many data to back up. What do you do? Like most people, you'll probably just run a full backup of everything and then spend the next few hours waiting for it to finish. What if there were an easier way? Well, now there is! Through the miracle of modern technology, we can now perform Synthetic Backups. These are backups that don't save any files on your system but instead use algorithms to create new ones that are exactly like the originals, so when you restore them, everything will be as it was before. This means that it takes less time than a regular backup and won't fill up your hard drive with gigabytes of useless files! So, whether you're trying to get through all those emails or want some extra space on your computer, Synthetic Backups are worth checking out!