Acronis Backup for PC - User Guide - Manual (Page 57)

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You have two such drives. Either of them has drive letter D in the operating system when
attached to the machine.
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You want to swap the drives 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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Specify D:\ as the archive location, where D is the letter either of the drives has in the
operating system when attached to the machine.
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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.
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.
If you choose to back up to locally attached RDX drives or USB flash drives, the Name backup files
using the archive name... check box does not appear. Instead, make sure that the removable device
mode (p. 146) is set to Removable media.
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:
a) When creating the first backup plan, specify ServerFiles[DATE] as the archive name, select the
Name backup files using the archive name… check box, select Full as the backup type, and
schedule the backups to run every day at 01:00:00 AM.
b) When creating the second backup plan, specify the same settings as in the first backup plan, but
select Differential as the backup type and schedule the backups as follows:
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Run the task: Daily
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Every: 1 Hour(s)
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From: 08:00:00 AM
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Until: 05:01:00 PM
Result: