Administrator's Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Administrator's Guide
- 1.1 About this document
- 1.2 Introduction to Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3 Installing Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud
- 1.3.1 Preparation
- 1.3.2 Installing and configuring RabbitMQ Server
- 1.3.3 Installing Acronis Backup Management Server
- 1.3.4 Using the management console
- 1.3.5 Integrating the management server with vCenter Server
- 1.3.6 Deploying Agent for VMware
- 1.3.7 Installing Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.8 Configuring Acronis Backup Agent for vCloud
- 1.3.9 Checking network connections
- 1.3.10 Updating to a new version
- 1.3.11 Uninstallation
- 1.4 Logging in to the backup service
- 1.5 Administering organizations
- 1.6 Configuring the backup service
- 1.7 Generating usage reports
- 1.8 Collecting logs
- 1.9 Advanced cases
- 1.10 Security and customization
- 2 User's Guide
- 3 Terminology reference
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The column chart represents backup storage usage for the last 30 days. In the chart, red columns
show days when the storage quota was exceeded and orange columns show days when the
storage quota was almost reached.
To generate a comprehensive report on the storage usage for a specific period, click Generate
usage report (p. 53).
2.6 Operations with backup plans
The Backup plans tab shows the backup plans that you can apply to your virtual machines.
The following backup plans are shown:
System backup plans ( ). System backup plans are shared with your organization by the
system administrator. Their schedule and retention rules can be changed only by using the
system administrator's interface. However, you can enable backup options for these plans, such
as encryption or notifications. To do so, click Set options. These options will be effective only
within your organization.
Backup plans created within the organization ( ). You can perform any operations with
these backup plans.
The Owner column shows who created the backup plan. For system backup plans and backup plans
that were created by the system administrator in your organization, the value in this column is
System.
2.6.1 Creating a backup plan
In addition to using existing backup plans, you can create your own backup plans.
To create a backup plan
1. Open the Backup plans tab.
2. Click Create.
3. Type the name of the backup plan. The name must differ from names of other backup plans in
the list of backup plans.
4. Specify the schedule type: Daily, Weekly, or GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son).
5. On the Schedule and Retention rules tabs, specify the schedule and retention rules (p. 49) for
the backup plan.
6. On the Options tab, specify the backup options (p. 51).
7. Click OK.
After creating the backup plan, you can apply it to your virtual machines (p. 42).
2.6.1.1 Schedule and retention rules
The backup operation runs according to the schedule you specify. The resulting backups are kept
according to the retention rules and then deleted.