Acronis Backup for Linux Server - User Guide - Manual (Page 58)

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Specify MyMachine as the archive name.
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Create a directory such as /mnt/backup and specify it as the archive location. Each time you
attach a drive, make sure to mount it to the mount point /mnt/backup.
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Select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box.
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Select Full as the backup type.
Result. Each hard disk drive will contain one full backup. While one drive is attached to the machine,
you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data protection.
4.3.3.5 Example 5. Daily backups with weekly drive swaps
Consider the following scenario:
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You want to perform daily backups of your machine: a full backup each Monday and incremental
backups on Tuesday through Sunday.
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You want to store the backups on a locally attached USB hard drive in the archive MyMachine.
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You have two such drives. You want to swap them each Monday so that one drive contains
backups of the current week (Monday through Sunday), and the other drive those of the
previous week.
In this scenario, you need to create two backup plans as follows:
a) When creating the first backup plan:
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Specify MyMachine as the archive name.
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Create a directory such as /mnt/backup and specify it as the archive location. Each time you
attach a drive, make sure to mount it to the mount point /mnt/backup.
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Select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box.
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Select Full as the backup type.
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Schedule the backups to run every week on Monday.
b) When creating the second backup plan, specify the same settings as in the first backup plan, but
select Incremental as the backup type and schedule the backups to run every week on Tuesday
through Sunday.
Each time you attach a drive, make sure to mount it to the mount point /mnt/backup.
Result:
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Before creating a Monday backup (by the first backup plan), all backups will be deleted from the
currently attached drive.
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While one drive is attached to the machine, you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data
protection.
4.3.3.6 Example 6. Backups within working hours
Consider the following scenario:
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You want to back up your server’s critical files every day.
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You want the first backup of each day to be full and to run at 01:00 AM.
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You want the backups during working hours to be differential and to run every hour from
8:00 AM through 5:00 PM.
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You want to include a creation date in the name of each backup file.
In this scenario, you need to create two backup plans as follows: