User guide

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4.4 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................57
4.4.1 Daily schedule .............................................................................................................................................58
4.4.2 Weekly schedule .........................................................................................................................................60
4.4.3 Monthly schedule .......................................................................................................................................62
4.4.4 At Windows Event Log event .....................................................................................................................64
4.4.5 Conditions ...................................................................................................................................................66
4.5 Replication and retention of backups ......................................................................................69
4.5.1 Supported locations ...................................................................................................................................70
4.5.2 Setting up replication of backups...............................................................................................................71
4.5.3 Setting up retention of backups .................................................................................................................71
4.5.4 Retention rules for the Custom scheme ....................................................................................................72
4.5.5 Replication/cleanup inactivity time ...........................................................................................................74
4.5.6 Usage examples ..........................................................................................................................................74
4.6 Default backup options ............................................................................................................76
4.6.1 Additional settings ......................................................................................................................................78
4.6.2 Archive protection ......................................................................................................................................79
4.6.3 Backup cataloging .......................................................................................................................................80
4.6.4 Backup performance ..................................................................................................................................81
4.6.5 Backup splitting ..........................................................................................................................................82
4.6.6 Compression level ......................................................................................................................................83
4.6.7 Disaster recovery plan (DRP) ......................................................................................................................84
4.6.8 Error handling .............................................................................................................................................84
4.6.9 Event tracing ...............................................................................................................................................85
4.6.10 Fast incremental/differential backup ........................................................................................................86
4.6.11 File-level backup snapshot .........................................................................................................................87
4.6.12 File-level security ........................................................................................................................................87
4.6.13 Media components ....................................................................................................................................88
4.6.14 Mount points ..............................................................................................................................................88
4.6.15 Multi-volume snapshot ..............................................................................................................................89
4.6.16 Notifications ................................................................................................................................................89
4.6.17 Pre/Post commands ...................................................................................................................................91
4.6.18 Pre/Post data capture commands .............................................................................................................93
4.6.19 Replication/cleanup inactivity time ...........................................................................................................95
4.6.20 Sector-by-sector backup ............................................................................................................................95
4.6.21 Task failure handling ...................................................................................................................................95
4.6.22 Task start conditions...................................................................................................................................96
4.6.23 Volume Shadow Copy Service ....................................................................................................................97
5 Recovery ............................................................................................................................... 99
5.1 Creating a recovery task ..........................................................................................................99
5.1.1 What to recover....................................................................................................................................... 101
5.1.2 Access credentials for location ................................................................................................................ 104
5.1.3 Access credentials for destination .......................................................................................................... 104
5.1.4 Where to recover .................................................................................................................................... 105
5.1.5 When to recover ...................................................................................................................................... 112
5.1.6 Task credentials ....................................................................................................................................... 112
5.2 Acronis Universal Restore ..................................................................................................... 113
5.2.1 Getting Universal Restore ....................................................................................................................... 113
5.2.2 Using Universal Restore .......................................................................................................................... 114
5.3 Recovering BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa ............................................ 116
5.3.1 Recovering volumes ................................................................................................................................ 117
5.3.2 Recovering disks ...................................................................................................................................... 118
5.4 Acronis Active Restore .......................................................................................................... 120