Example 3. Minimizing storage space taken by full backups

Case: The company's backup strategy requires creating daily full backups of the Exchange server database hosting 1 TB of data. Each backup has to be retained for 8 weeks. Thus, having 56 full backups requires about 56 TB of storage space. The average amount of daily changes on the server is about 30 GB.

Solution: Do express full backups to a deduplicating vault. The storage space savings will be about 52 TB or about 92%.

Steps to perform

  1. Connect the console to the machine running Agent for Exchange.
  2. Click Create backup plan.
  3. Under What to back up, select the required Exchange databases or storage groups.
  4. Under Where to back up, select the managed deduplicating vault.
  5. Under How to back up, select the Simple backup scheme.
    1. In Schedule, select Daily and schedule the required time of backup start.
    2. Click Show backup type, 2nd location, validation to access the Backup type setting.
    3. In Backup type, choose Full and select Create full backups using the Express full backup method.
  6. 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.
  7. Click OK to save the created backup plan.