User guide

Backup type

To access this setting, click Show backup type, 2nd location, validation, convert to virtual

machine.

Select the backup type.

 Full - selected by default for all backup locations (except for Acronis Online Backup Storage).

 Incremental. At the first time a full backup will be created. The next backups will be

incremental. Selected as the one and only backup type for Acronis Online Backup Storage.

Note: When the Incremental backup type is selected along with retention rules, the archive will be

cleaned up using consolidation (p. 242), which is a more time-consuming and resource-intensive

operation.

4.2.6.2 Grandfather-Father-Son scheme

At a glance

 Daily ("Son"), weekly ("Father"), and monthly ("Grandfather") backups

 Custom day for weekly and monthly backups

 Custom retention periods for backups of each type

Description

Let us suppose that we want to set up a backup plan that will regularly produce a series of daily (D),

weekly (W), and monthly (M) backups. Here is a natural way to do this: the following table shows a

sample two-month period for such a plan.

Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su

Jan 1—Jan 7

Jan 8—Jan 14

Jan 15—Jan 21

Jan 22—Jan 28

Jan 29—Feb 4

Feb 5—Feb 11

Feb 12—Feb 18

Feb 19—Feb 25

Feb 26—Mar 4

Daily backups run every workday except Friday, which is left for weekly and monthly backups.

Monthly backups run every fourth Friday, and weekly backups run on all other Fridays.

Parameters

You can set up the following parameters of a Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) scheme.

Start backup at Specifies when to start a backup. The default value is 12:00 PM.

Back up on Specifies the days on which to perform a backup. The default value is Workdays.