Example 1. Backing up within a narrow backup window
Case: The company's working schedule allows a backup window of only 5 hours per night. The network bandwidth is 60 GB per hour. This effectively limits the amount of data that can be backed up nightly to 300 GB. The Exchange server in the company hosts 500 GB of data making it impossible to finish a full backup within the required time frame. Daily changes, however, almost never exceed 5 GB.
Solution: Do express full backups to a deduplicating vault. Create a backup plan and schedule the backup to start at the beginning of the night backup window. To create the initial full backup, temporarily expand the night backup window. The subsequent express full backups will fit the backup window.
Steps to perform
Connect the console to the machine running Agent for Exchange.
Click Create backup plan.
Under What to back up, select the required server's data.
Under Where to back up, select the managed deduplicating vault.
Under How to back up, select the Simple backup scheme.
In Schedule, select Daily and schedule backup to run at the beginning of the night backup window.
Click Show backup type, 2nd location, validation to access the Backup type setting.
In Backup type, choose Full and select Create full backups using the Express full backup method.
For information about specifying the rest of backup plan settings (replication, retention, and validation of backups), refer to the "Backup" section of the product help system or guides for Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Editions.