Manual Acronis Backup Service for vCloud Update 4 (page 14 of 21) (English)

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2. Out of these days of week, choose the one to Do weekly/monthly backups on. Backups that are

performed on that day will be considered as weekly backups and monthly backups. Backups that

are performed on other days will be considered as daily backups.

By default, the backups will run Monday through Friday at 22:00. Friday is chosen for

Weekly/Monthly backups.

Retention rules

Specify how long you want to retain the daily, weekly, and monthly backups.

The default settings are the following:

 Daily backups: 5 days (recommended minimum)

 Weekly backups: 7 weeks

 Monthly backups: 12 months

Example

Suppose that you use the default settings (run backups Monday through Friday, Weekly/Monthly

backups on Friday, the default retention rules) and apply the backup plan on Monday, March 1.

The following table shows which daily (D), weekly (W), and monthly (M) backups will remain on

Friday, April 30. Backups that are shown on the gray background will be deleted by that day.

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

Sun

March 1–7

–

March 8–14

–

March 15–21

–

March 22–28

–

March 29–April 4

–

April 5–11

–

April 12–18

–

April 19–25

–

April 26–May 2

–

1.6.1.2 Backup options

On the Options tab, configure the parameters of the backup operation.

Encryption

Specify the password to be used for encrypting the backups. The password prompt will appear when

someone tries to delete a backup or recover data from it.

The backups will be encrypted with the AES-256 encryption algorithm.

The password is not stored anywhere on the disk or in the backup file. Make sure you remember the

password. Recovering a lost password is not possible.

If you edit the backup plan (p. 16) and change or remove the password, the retention rules will no

longer apply to the backups with the old encryption setting. Also, separate entries will be shown in

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