Acronis Backup for PC - User Guide - Manual (Page 41)

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Manual start – to create a backup task for manual start.
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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.
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Full - selected by default for all backup locations (except for Acronis Cloud Storage).
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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. 235), which is a more time-consuming and resource-intensive
operation.
4.2.6.2 Grandfather-Father-Son scheme
At a glance
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Daily ("Son"), weekly ("Father"), and monthly ("Grandfather") backups
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Custom day for weekly and monthly backups