ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Server for Windows User Manual page 133

Apply the rules
(only if the retention rules
are set)
Cleanup schedule
(only if On schedule is
selected)
Examples
Weekly full backup
The following scheme yields a full backup performed every Friday night.
Full backup: Schedule: Weekly, every Friday, at 10:00 PM
Here, all parameters except Schedule in Full backup are left empty. All backups in the archive are
kept indefinitely (no archive cleanup is performed).
Full and incremental backup plus cleanup
With the following scheme, the archive will consist of weekly full backups and daily incremental
backups. We further require that a full backup begin only after all users have logged off.
Full backup: Schedule: Weekly, every Friday, at 10:00 PM
Full backup: Conditions: User is logged off
Incremental: Schedule: Weekly, every workday, at 9:00 PM
Also, let all backups older than one year be deleted from the archive, and let the cleanup be
performed upon creating a new backup.
Retention rules: Delete backups older than 12 months
Apply the rules: After backing up
By default, a one-year-old full backup will not be deleted until all incremental backups that depend
on it become subject to deletion too. For more information, see Retention rules (p. 31).
Monthly full, weekly differential, and daily incremental backups plus cleanup
This example demonstrates the use of all options available in the Custom scheme.
Suppose that we need a scheme that will produce monthly full backups, weekly differential backups,
and daily incremental backups. Then the backup schedule can look as follows.
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backup for some reason.
Specifies when to apply the retention rules (p. 31).
For example, the cleanup procedure can be set up to run after each backup, and
also on schedule.
This option is available only if you have set at least one retention rule in
Retention rules.
Specifies a schedule for archive cleanup.
For example, the cleanup can be scheduled to start on the last day of each
month.
This option is available only if you selected On schedule in Apply the rules.
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