Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Adv WS TIDLBPDES User Manual

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TIDLBPDES

Backup

Set up the backup schedule - when and how often to back up the data.

To learn more about setting up the schedule, see the Scheduling (p. 161) section.

Retention rule

With the simple scheme, only one retention rule (p. 38) is available. Set the retention
period for the backups.

6.2.9.4.

Grandfather-Father-Son scheme

At a glance

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Daily incremental, weekly differential, and monthly full backups

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Custom day for weekly and monthly backups

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Custom retention periods for backups of each type

Description

Let us suppose that we want to set up a backup plan that will regularly produce a series of daily (D),
weekly (W), and monthly (M) backups. Here is a natural way to do this: the following table shows a
sample two-month period for such a plan.

Jan 1—Jan 7

W - -

Jan 8—Jan 14

W - -

Jan 15—Jan 21

W - -

Jan 22—Jan 28

M - -

Jan 29—Feb 4

W - -

Feb 5—Feb 11

W - -

Feb 12—Feb 18

W - -

Feb 19—Feb 25

M - -

Feb 26—Mar 4

W - -

Daily backups run every workday except Friday, which is left for weekly and monthly backups.
Monthly backups run every fourth Friday, and weekly backups run on all other Fridays.

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Monthly ("Grandfather") backups are full;

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Weekly ("Father") backups are differential;

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Daily ("Son") backups are incremental.

Parameters

You can set up the following parameters of a Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) scheme.

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