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 Using Acronis Cloud Backup to protect data from a natural disaster (p. 77)
Replicate the archive to the cloud storage by transferring only the data changes outside working
hours.
 Reduced costs of storing the backed-up data
Store your backups on a fast storage for as long as a need to access them is likely. Then, move
them to a lower-cost storage to keep them there for a longer term. This enables you to meet
legal requirements on data retention.
Replication and retention in backup schemes
The following table shows availability of replication and retention rules in various backup schemes.
Backup scheme
Can copy
backups
Can move
backups
Can delete
backups
Manual start (p. 50)
Yes
No
No
Simple (p. 42)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Grandfather-Father-Son
(GFS) (p. 42)
Yes
No
Yes
Tower of Hanoi (p. 48)
Yes
No
Yes
Custom (p. 46)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Initial seeding (p. 51)
No
No
No
Notes:
 Setting up both copying and moving backups from the same location is not possible.
 With simplified naming of backup files (p. 54), neither replication nor use of retention rules is
available.
4.5.1 Supported locations
You can copy or move a backup from any of these locations:
 A local folder on a fixed drive
 A network folder
 An FTP or SFTP server
 Acronis Secure Zone
You can copy or move a backup to any of these locations:
 A local folder on a fixed drive
 A network folder
 An FTP or SFTP server
 Acronis Cloud Storage
 A removable device (p. 151) used in the Fixed drive mode. (You select the removable device
mode when creating a backup plan.)
Backups that were copied or moved to the next location do not depend on the backups remaining in
the original location and vice versa. You can recover data from any backup without access to other
locations.