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 You want the backups during working hours to be differential and to run every hour from

8:00 AM through 5:00 PM.

 You want to include a creation date in the name of each backup file.

In this scenario, you need to create two backup plans as follows:

a) When creating the first backup plan, specify ServerFiles[DATE] as the archive name, select the

Name backup files using the archive name… check box, select Full as the backup type, and

schedule the backups to run every day at 01:00:00 AM.

b) When creating the second backup plan, specify the same settings as in the first backup plan, but

select Differential as the backup type and schedule the backups as follows:

 Run the task: Daily

 Every: 1 Hour(s)

 From: 08:00:00 AM

 Until: 05:01:00 PM

Result:

 The full backup of January 31, 2012, will be stored as ServerFiles[2012-01-31].tib.

 The 10 differential backups of January 31, 2012, will be stored as ServerFiles[2012-01-31]2.tib,

ServerFiles[2012-01-31]3.tib, and so on up to ServerFiles[2012-01-31]11.tib.

 The following day, February 1, the backups will start with the full backup

ServerFiles[2012-02-01].tib. The differential backups will start with ServerFiles[2012-02-01]2.tib.

See also “The [Date] variable” (p. 54).

4.4 Scheduling

Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company’s daily routine and

each employee’s work style. The plans’ tasks will be launched systematically keeping the critical data

safely protected.

The scheduling is available when creating a backup plan (p. 33) with any of the following backup

schemes: Simple, Custom or Tower of Hanoi. The schedule also can be set for validation tasks (p.

150).

The scheduler uses local time of the machine the backup plan exists on. Before creating a schedule,

be sure the machine’s date and time settings are correct.

Schedule

To define when a task has to be executed, you need to specify an event or multiple events. The task

will be launched as soon as any of the events occurs. The table below lists the events available under

Windows operating systems.

Event

Time: Daily, Weekly, Monthly

Time since completion of the last successful backup within the same backup plan

(specify the length of time)

User logon

(any user, current user, specify the user’s account)