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 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.

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