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 Custom – to create a custom scheme, where you are free to set up a backup strategy in the way

your enterprise needs it most: specify multiple schedules for different backup types, add

conditions and specify the retention rules.

 Manual start – to create a backup task for manual start OR schedule one-time task execution in

the future.

 Initial seeding - to save locally a full backup whose final destination is Acronis Online Backup

Storage.

4.2.5.1 Simple scheme

With the simple backup scheme, you just schedule when and how often to back up data. Other steps

are optional.

To set up the simple backup scheme, specify the appropriate settings as follows.

Schedule

Set up when and how often to back up the data. To learn more about setting up the schedule,

see the Scheduling (p. 53) section.

Retention rules

Specify how long to store backups in the location and whether to move or delete them

afterward. The retention rules are applied after creating a backup. The Keep backups indefinitely

is set by default, which means that no backups will be deleted automatically. For more

information about retention rules, see Setting up retention of backups (p. 68).

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. 231), which is a more time-consuming and resource-intensive

operation.

4.2.5.2 Run now scheme

With the Run now scheme, the backup will be performed immediately, right after you click the OK

button at the bottom of the Create Backup Plan page.

In the Backup type field, select whether you want to create a full, incremental or differential backup

(p. 22).

4.2.5.3 Grandfather-Father-Son scheme

At a glance

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

 Custom day for weekly and monthly backups