Source Files Exclusion; Pre/Post Commands; Before/After Data Capture Commands - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - FOR LINUX User Manual

Encryption
The preset is 128 bit.
Once the password has been set, you can choose to encrypt the backup for advanced
security with industry-standard AES cryptographic algorithm. The password is used to
generate a key which may differ in length. There are 4 choices: no encryption, 128, 192
and 256-bit encryption. The more the key size, the longer time to cipher and the greater
is your data security.

5.3.2 Source files exclusion

By default, all files from the selected folders will be included in the archive.
You can set default filters for the specific types of files you do not wish to back up. For
example, you may want hidden and system files and folders not to be stored in the
archive.
You can also apply custom filters, using the common masking rules. For example, to
exclude all files with extension .tib, add *.tib mask. My???.tib mask will reject all .tib
files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with "my".
This option is effective for file/folders backup only. When creating a disk/partition image,
you cannot filter out any files.

5.3.3 Pre/post commands

You can specify commands or executable files to be automatically executed before and
after the backup procedure. For example, you may want to remove some tmp files from
the disk before starting backup or configure a third-party antivirus product to be started
each time before the backup starts. Click Edit to open the Edit Command window
where you can easily input the command, its arguments and working directory or browse
folders to find an executable file.
Please do not try to execute interactive commands, i.e. commands that require user
input. These are not supported.
Unchecking the Do not perform operations until the commands execution is
complete box, checked by default, will permit the backup process to run concurrently
with your commands execution.

5.3.4 Before/after data capture commands

Database servers, such as My SQL Server, prove to be troublesome to backup, partially
due to open files and indexes and partially due to rapid data changes. Therefore many
system administrators prefer to suspend the database at the backup (capturing the
Snapshot) moment.
To ensure that the database will be ready to access immediately after recovery, the
administrator must ensure completion of all transactions before the backup process starts.
Once the backup process starts, you can resume server operations. It is not necessary to
suspend the applications for the duration of the imaging process.
The transactions completion can be ensured with executing scripts that pause the
appropriate services and automatically resume them after data capture.
Create scripts in any text editor (for example, name it 'pause_services.bat' and
'resume_services.bat'. Use Edit buttons to the right of Before data capture command
and After data capture command fields, to open the Edit Command window where
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