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9.3.3 Sending the full backup
After the full backup has been created, send it to the online storage.
1. Copy or move the full backup to the hard drive you are going to send. You can place two or more
full backups on a single hard drive. Make sure that the hard drive is of a supported type (p. 8).
2. Package (p. 10) the hard drive for shipment. Make sure to enclose a prepaid return shipping label
if you want your hard drive to be sent back to you.
3. Send the hard drive to Acronis. You can find the address on the account management Web page.
4. Track (p. 12) the status of your Initial Seeding order.
9.3.4 Creating subsequent backups
After the full backup has been uploaded to the online storage, modify the backup plan to set up
subsequent incremental backups of the same items. You may want to run the backups manually or
on a schedule.
To schedule regular incremental backups
1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. In the Navigation tree, click Backup plans and tasks.
3. Right-click the backup plan that created the full backup, and then click Edit.
4. In Backup scheme, change Initial seeding to Simple.
5. Click Schedule, and then specify the schedule according to which the incremental backups will
run, for example on the last Saturday of each month, as follows:
a. In Run the task:, click Monthly.
b. Under Schedule, click On:, and then leave only the Last and the Sat check boxes selected in
the respective lists.
c. Under During the day execute the task…, specify the time of day when you want the
backups to run.
6. Click OK to close the Schedule window.
7. In Retention rules, select Delete backups older than..., and then specify the value of six months.
8. Click Save to update the backup plan.
9. If prompted, specify the credentials which the plan's scheduled tasks will use to run.
10 Accessing backups stored in the online vault
To access the backups stored in the online vault
1. Connect the console to the management server or a managed machine.
2. In the Navigation tree, expand Vaults, then expand Centralized, and then click the vault name.
11 Operations with backups stored in the online
storage
When the console is connected to a machine, you can perform the following operations with backups
stored in the online storage: