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Incremental: Schedule: Weekly, every workday, at 7:00 PM

Differential: Schedule: Weekly, every Saturday, at 8:00 PM

Further, we want to add conditions that have to be satisfied for a backup task to start. This is set up in

the Conditions fields for each backup type.

Full backup: Conditions: Location available

Incremental: Conditions: User is logged off

Differential: Conditions: User is idle

As a result, a full backup—originally scheduled at 9:00 PM—may actually start later: as soon as the

backup location becomes available. Likewise, backup tasks for incremental and differential backups

will wait until all users are logged off and users are idle, respectively.

Finally, we create retention rules for the archive: let us retain only backups that are no older than six

months, and let the cleanup be performed after each backup task and also on the last day of every

month.

Retention rules: Delete backups older than 6 months

Apply the rules: After backing up, On schedule

Cleanup schedule: Monthly, on the Last day of All months, at 10:00 PM

By default, a backup is not deleted as long as it has dependent backups that must be kept. For

example, if a full backup has become subject to deletion, but there are incremental or differential

backups that depend on it, the deletion is postponed until all the dependent backups can be deleted

as well.

For more information, see Retention rules (p. 42).

Resulting tasks

Any custom scheme always produces three backup tasks and—in case the retention rules are

specified—a cleanup task. Each task is listed in the list of tasks either as Scheduled (if the schedule

has been set up) or as Manual (if the schedule has not been set up).

You can manually run any backup task or cleanup task at any time, regardless of whether it has a

schedule.

In the first of the previous examples, we set up a schedule only for full backups. However, the scheme

will still result in three backup tasks, enabling you to manually start a backup of any type:

• Full backup, runs every Friday at 10:00 PM

• Incremental backup, runs manually

• Differential backup, runs manually

You can run any of these backup tasks by selecting it from the list of tasks in the Backup plans and

tasks section in the left pane.

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