Archive Validation; Online Backup - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER - UPDATE 3 User Manual

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.
7.3.7.7 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. 381)" section for more details.
7.3.8

Archive validation

Set up the validation task to check if the backed up data is recoverable. If the backup could not pass
the validation successfully, the validation task fails and the backup plan gets the Error status.
To set up validation, specify the following parameters
1. When to validate – select when to perform the validation. As the validation is a resource-
intensive operation, it makes sense to schedule the validation to the managed machine's off-
peak period. On the other hand, if the validation is a major part of your data protection strategy
and you prefer to be immediately informed whether the backed up data is not corrupted and can
be successfully recovered, think of starting the validation right after backup creation.
2. What to validate – select either to validate the entire archive or the latest backup in the archive.
Validation of a file backup imitates recovery of all files from the backup to a dummy destination.
Validation of a volume backup calculates a checksum for every data block saved in the backup.
Validation of the archive will validate all the archive's backups and may take a long time and a lot
of system resources.
3. Validation schedule (appears only if you have selected the on schedule in step 1) - set the
schedule of validation. For more information see the Scheduling (p. 168) section.

8 Online backup

This section provides details about using the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online service. This
service enables you to do online backups to Acronis Online Backup Storage.
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