ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR LINUX - UPDATE 3 User Manual page 112

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You want to perform daily full backups of your machine to the file MyMachine.tib on an external
hard disk drive.
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You have two such drives. Either of them has the drive letter D when attached to the machine.
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You want to swap the drives before each backup, so that one drive contains today's backup and
the other drive yesterday's backup.
 You want each new backup to replace the backup on the currently attached drive.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify
MyMachine as the archive name and D:\ as the archive location, select the Name backup files using
the archive name... check box, and select Full as the backup type.
Result. Each hard disk drive will contain one full backup. While one drive is attached to the machine,
you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data protection.
Example 5. Daily backups with weekly drive swaps
Consider the following scenario:
 You want to perform daily backups of your machine: a full backup each Monday and incremental
backups on Tuesday through Sunday.
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You want to back up to the archive MyMachine on an external hard disk drive.
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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, specify MyMachine as the archive name and D:\ as the
archive location, select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box, select Full as
the backup type, and 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.
 While one drive is attached to the machine, you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data
protection.
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:
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