56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2015
4.3.3.3 Example 3. Hourly backups within a day
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform hourly backups of your server's critical files every day.
You want the first backup of each day to be full and to run at midnight; and the subsequent
backups of the day to be differential and to run at 01:00, 02:00, and so on.
You want to keep older backups in the archive.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify
ServerFiles[Date] as the archive name, select the Name backup files using the archive name… check
box, specify Differential as the backup type, and schedule the backups to run every hour from
midnight.
Result:
The 24 backups of January 1, 2012, will be stored as ServerFiles[2012-01-01].tib,
ServerFiles[2012-01-01]2.tib, and so on up to ServerFiles[2012-01-01]24.tib.
The following day, the backups will start with the full backup ServerFiles[2012-01-02].tib.
See also "The [Date] variable" (p. 54).
4.3.3.4 Example 4. Daily full backups with daily drive swaps
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform a daily full backup of your machine.
You want to store the backup on a locally attached USB hard drive in the file MyMachine.tib.
You have two such drives. Each of them has the drive letter D when attached to the machine.
You want to swap the drives before each backup so that one drive contains today’s backup and
the other drive yesterday’s backup.
You want each new backup to replace the backup on the currently attached drive.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan:
Specify MyMachine as the archive name.
Specify D:\ as the archive location.
Select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box.
Select Full as the backup type.
Result. Each hard disk drive will contain one full backup. While one drive is attached to the machine,
you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data protection.
If you choose to back up to locally attached RDX drives or USB flash drives, the Name backup files
using the archive name... check box does not appear. Instead, make sure that the removable device
mode (p. 149) is set to Removable media.
4.3.3.5 Example 5. Daily backups with weekly drive swaps
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform daily backups of your machine: a full backup each Monday and incremental
backups on Tuesday through Sunday.
You want to store the backups on a locally attached USB hard drive in the archive MyMachine.
