Operation Manual

backup will be performed and select from these days the day of weekly/monthly backup. Then

you set the retention periods for the daily (referred to as "sons"), weekly (referred to as

"fathers") and monthly (referred to as "grandfathers") backups. The expired backups will be

deleted automatically.

 Tower of Hanoi – to use the Tower of Hanoi backup scheme. This scheme allows you to schedule

when and how often to back up (sessions) and select the number of backup levels (up to 16). The

data can be backed up more than once a day. By setting up the backup schedule and selecting

backup levels, you automatically obtain the rollback period – the guaranteed number of sessions

that you can go back at any time. The automatic cleanup mechanism maintains the required

rollback period by deleting the expired backups and keeping the most recent backups of each

level.

 Custom – to create a custom scheme, where you are free to set up a backup strategy in the way

your enterprise needs it most: specify multiple schedules for different backup types, add

conditions and specify the retention rules.

 Manual start – to create a backup task for manual start.

 Initial seeding – to save locally a full backup whose final destination is Acronis Cloud Storage.

4.2.6.1 Simple scheme

With the simple backup scheme, you just schedule when and how often to back up data. Other steps

are optional.

To set up the simple backup scheme, specify the appropriate settings as follows.

Schedule

Set up when and how often to back up the data. To learn more about setting up the schedule,

see the Scheduling (p. 58) section.

Retention rules

Specify how long to store backups in the location and whether to move or delete them afterward.

The retention rules are applied after creating a backup. The Keep backups indefinitely is set by

default, which means that no backups will be deleted automatically. For more information about

retention rules, see Setting up retention of backups (p. 72).

Backup type

To access this setting, click Show backup type, validation, convert to virtual machine.

Select the backup type.

 Full - selected by default for all backup locations (except for Acronis Cloud Storage).

 Incremental. At the first time a full backup will be created. The next backups will be

incremental. Selected as the one and only backup type for Acronis Cloud Storage.

Note: When the Incremental backup type is selected along with retention rules, the archive will be

cleaned up using consolidation (p. 239), which is a more time-consuming and resource-intensive

operation.

4.2.6.2 Grandfather-Father-Son scheme

At a glance

 Daily ("Son"), weekly ("Father"), and monthly ("Grandfather") backups

 Custom day for weekly and monthly backups