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
51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014
Monthly backups: 12 months
Example
Suppose that you use the default settings (run backups Monday through Friday, Weekly/Monthly
backups on Friday, the default retention rules) and apply the backup plan on Monday, March 1.
The following table shows which daily (D), weekly (W), and monthly (M) backups will remain on
Friday, April 30. Backups that are shown on the gray background will be deleted by that day.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
March 1–7
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
March 8–14
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
March 15–21
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
March 22–28
D
D
D
D
M
–
–
March 29–April 4
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
April 5–11
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
April 12–18
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
April 19–25
D
D
D
D
W
–
–
April 26–May 2
D
D
D
D
M
–
–
2.6.1.2 Backup options
On the Options tab, configure the parameters of the backup operation.
Encryption
Specify the password to be used for encrypting the backups. The password prompt will appear when
someone tries to delete a backup or recover data from it.
The backups will be encrypted with the AES-256 encryption algorithm.
The password is not stored anywhere on the disk or in the backup file. Make sure you remember the
password. Recovering a lost password is not possible.
If you edit the backup plan (p. 52) and change or remove the password, the retention rules will no
longer apply to the backups with the old encryption setting. Also, separate entries will be shown in
the backup storage for sets of backups with different encryption settings. During recovery, you will
need to select the correct entry and type the correct password.
Notifications
Specify whether to send e-mail notifications after a successful backup, after a failed backup, or both.
Specify the address to send the notifications. Separate multiple e-mail addresses with a semicolon.
For example: user1@example.com; user2@example.com
The notifications will be sent from the e-mail address specified by a system administrator.
Exclusions
Type one or more criteria. Files and folders that match any of the specified criteria will not be backed
up.