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Grandfather-Father-Son – to use the Grandfather-Father-Son backup scheme. The scheme does
not allow data to be backed up more than once a day. You set the days of week when the daily
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, where you schedule when and how
often to back up (sessions) and select the number of backup levels (up to 16). In this scheme, 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.
Initial seeding - to save locally a full backup whose final destination is Acronis Online Backup
Storage.
7.3.7.1
Back up now scheme
With the Back up now scheme, the backup will be performed immediately, right after you click the
OK button at the bottom of the page.
In the Backup type field, select whether you want to create a full, incremental or differential backup
(p. 34).
7.3.7.2
Back up later scheme
With the Back up later scheme, the backup will be performed only once, at the date and time you
specify.
Specify the appropriate settings as follows
Backup type
Select the type of backup: full, incremental, or differential. If there is no full backup in
the archive, a full backup will be created regardless of your selection.
Date and time
Specify when to start the backup.
The task will be
started manually
Select this check box, if you do not need to put the backup task on a schedule and
wish to start it manually afterwards.
7.3.7.3
Simple scheme
With the simple backup scheme you just schedule when and how often to back up data and set the
retention rule. At the first time a full backup will be created. The next backups will be incremental.
To set up the simple backup scheme, specify the appropriate settings as follows.
Backup
Set up the backup schedule - when and how often to back up the data.
To learn more about setting up the schedule, see the Scheduling (p. 173) section.
