Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 103)

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the Location field. Under Retention rules, select Move backups older than 1 week. Then, specify the
tape device in the 2nd location field.
Make sure that the tape device is ready to work. The preparation steps are described in the "Backing
up a machine to a directly attached tape device" (p. 198) section.
Result:
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After a backup is completed, the agent checks for backups that need to be moved.
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The agent moves the backups that are older than one week, by copying them to the tape device
and then deleting them from the original location.
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You can eject tapes with backups and securely store them off-site. Once you select data for
recovery, Acronis Backup will prompt you which tapes to insert.
4.5.5.5 Example 5. Backing up to tapes within a narrow backup window
This example assumes that you are using Acronis Backup Advanced.
Consider the following scenario:
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You want to back up servers every workday after working hours.
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You want to do a monthly full backup on one of the workdays, and partial (incremental or
differential) backups on the other workdays.
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You want to store the backups on a tape library.
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The backup window for the servers is narrow, so they cannot be backed up to the tapes directly.
In this scenario, install Acronis Backup Storage Node and create two managed vaults: one on a hard
disk local to the storage node, and another on the tape library locally attached to it.
Create a centralized backup plan for all of the machines with the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS)
scheme. When creating the backup plan, specify the vault on the hard disk in the Location field.
Under Backup type, select Full/Incremental/Differential.
For the primary location, in Keep backups, choose to keep monthly backups for one month (you
need to clear the Keep indefinitely check box). This way, the vault will serve as an intermediate,
short-term storage for the backups.
Select the Replicate newly created backup to another location check box, and then specify the vault
on the tape library in the 2nd location field. For the second location, select to keep monthly backups
indefinitely.
Result:
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Agents back up their machines to the vault on the hard disk.
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The storage node copies the backups to the tape device. No CPU resource from the machines is
taken.
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The lifetime of backups on the hard disk does not exceed one month. On the tape library, the
monthly backups are kept indefinitely.
4.6 How to disable backup cataloging
Cataloging a backup adds the contents of the backup to the data catalog as soon as the backup is
created. This process can be time-consuming, especially in environments with a large amount of
machines. Therefore, you may want to disable cataloging in the entire environment.