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Finally, we create retention rules for the archive: let us retain only backups that are no older than six
months, and let the cleanup be performed after each backup task and also on the last day of every
month.
Retention rules
: Delete backups older than
6 months
Apply the rules
:
After backing up
,
On schedule
Cleanup schedule
:
Monthly
, on the
Last day
of
All months
, at
10:00 PM
By default, a backup is not deleted as long as it has dependent backups that must be kept. For
example, if a full backup has become subject to deletion, but there are incremental or differential
backups that depend on it, the deletion is postponed until all the dependent backups can be deleted
as well.
For more information, see Retention rules (p. 38).
Resulting tasks
Any custom scheme always produces three backup tasks and—in case the retention rules are
specified—a cleanup task. Each task is listed in the list of tasks either as
Scheduled
(if the schedule
has been set up) or as
Manual
(if the schedule has not been set up).
You can manually run any backup task or cleanup task at any time, regardless of whether it has a
schedule.
In the first of the previous examples, we set up a schedule only for full backups. However, the
scheme will still result in three backup tasks, enabling you to manually start a backup of any type:
Full backup, runs every Friday at 10:00 PM
Incremental backup, runs manually
Differential backup, runs manually
You can run any of these backup tasks by selecting it from the list of tasks in the
Backup plans and
tasks
section in the left pane.
If you have also specified the retention rules in your backup scheme, the scheme will result in four
tasks: three backup tasks and one cleanup task.
6.2.10.7
Initial seeding
This backup scheme is only available when you have an Initial Seeding license and selected the Online
Backup Storage as the backup destination.
Initial seeding enables you to transfer the first backup, which is full and usually the largest, to the
online storage on a hard drive instead of over the Internet. Subsequent backups, which are all
incremental and thus usually much smaller, can be transferred over the Internet after the full backup
has arrived in the online storage.
If you back up a large amount of data, initial seeding ensures faster delivery of the backed-up data
and lower traffic costs.
Please refer to the "Initial Seeding FAQ (p. 370)" section for more details.
