Tower Of Hanoi Scheme - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition User Manual

6.2.9.5

Tower of Hanoi scheme

At a glance
 Up to 16 levels of full, differential, and incremental backups
 Next-level backups are twice as rare as previous-level backups
 One backup of each level is stored at a time
 Higher density of more recent backups
Parameters
You can set up the following parameters of a Tower of Hanoi scheme.
Schedule
Number of levels
Roll-back period
Example
Schedule parameters are set as follows

Recur: Every 1 day

Frequency: Once at 6 PM
Number of levels: 4
This is how the first 14 days (or 14 sessions) of this scheme's schedule look. Shaded numbers denote
backup levels.
1 2 3 4 5
4 1 2 1 3
Backups of different levels have different types:

Last-level (in this case, level 4) backups are full;

Backups of intermediate levels (2, 3) are differential;

First-level (1) backups are incremental.
A cleanup mechanism ensures that only the most recent backups of each level are kept. Here is how
the archive looks on day 8, a day before creating a new full backup.
1 2 3 4 5
4 1 2 1 3
The scheme allows for efficient data storage: more backups accumulate toward the current time.
Having four backups, we could recover data as of today, yesterday, half a week, or a week ago.
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Set up a daily (p. 167), weekly (p. 169), or monthly (p. 171) schedule. Setting up
schedule parameters allows creating simple schedules (example of a simple daily
schedule: a backup task will be run every 1 day at 10 AM) as well as more complex
schedules (example of a complex daily schedule: a task will be run every 3 days, starting
from January 15. During the specified days the task will be repeated every 2 hours from
10 AM to 10 PM). Thus, complex schedules specify the sessions on which the scheme
should run. In the discussion below, "days" can be replaced with "scheduled sessions".
Select from 2 to 16 backup levels. See the example stated below for details.
The guaranteed number of sessions that one can go back in the archive at any time.
Calculated automatically, depending on the schedule parameters and the numbers of
levels you select. See the example below for details.
6 7 8 9
1 2 1 4
6 7 8
1 2 1
10 11 12 13 14
1 2 1 3 1
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