Access Credentials For Archive Location; Backup Schemes - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition User Manual

2. Applying multiple retention rules to an archive makes the archive content in some way
unpredictable. Since each of the rules will be applied to the entire archive, the backups belonging
to one backup plan can be easily deleted along with the backups belonging to the other. You
should especially not expect the classic behavior of the GFS and Tower of Hanoi backup schemes.
Normally, each complex backup plan should back up to its own archive.
6.2.8

Access credentials for archive location

Specify credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive will be stored. The
user whose name is specified will be considered as the archive owner.
To specify credentials
1. Select one of the following:
 Use the plan's credentials
The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account
specified in the General section.

Use the following credentials
The program will access the source data using the credentials you specify. Use this option if
the plan account does not have access permissions to the location. You might need to
provide special credentials for a network share or a storage node vault.
Specify:

User name. When entering the name of an Active Directory user account, be sure to also
specify the domain name (DOMAIN\Username or Username@domain)

Password. The password for the account.
2. Click OK.
Warning: According to the original FTP specification, credentials required for access to FTP servers are
transferred through a network as plaintext. This means that the user name and password can be intercepted by
an eavesdropper using a packet sniffer.
6.2.9

Backup schemes

Choose one of the available backup schemes:

Back up now – to create a backup task for manual start and run the task immediately after its
creation.

Back up later – to create a backup task for manual start OR schedule one-time task execution in
the future.

Simple – to schedule when and how often to backup data and specify retention rules.

Grandfather-Father-Son – to use the Grandfather-Father-Son backup scheme. The scheme does
not allow data to be backed up more than once a day. You set the days of week when the daily
backup will be performed and select from these days the day of weekly/monthly backup. Then
you set the retention periods for the daily (referred to as "sons"), weekly (referred to as
"fathers") and monthly (referred to as "grandfathers") backups. The expired backups will be
deleted automatically.
 Tower of Hanoi – to use the Tower of Hanoi backup scheme, where you schedule when and how
often to back up (sessions) and select the number of backup levels (up to 16). In this scheme, the
data can be backed up more than once a day. By setting up the backup schedule and selecting
backup levels, you automatically obtain the rollback period – the guaranteed number of sessions
that you can go back at any time. The automatic cleanup mechanism maintains the required
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