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This mode is not available if you selected the Archive size greater than rule for any archive
location except for Acronis Cloud Storage.
What you need to know about consolidation
Please be aware that consolidation is just a method of deletion but not an alternative to deletion.
The resulting backup will not contain data that was present in the deleted backup and was
absent from the retained incremental or differential backup.
4.5.5 Usage examples
This section provides examples of how you can replicate backups and set up retention rules for them.
4.5.5.1 Example 1. Replicating backups to a network folder
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform a full backup of your machine manually.
You want to store the backups in Acronis Secure Zone (p. 193) on the machine.
You want to store a copy of the backups in a network folder.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with the Manual start scheme. When creating the backup plan,
specify Acronis Secure Zone in the Location field, select Full in the Backup type field, select the
Replicate newly created backup to another location check box, and then specify the network folder
in the 2nd location field.
Result:
You can recover the machine’s volumes or files from a readily available local backup, which is
stored in a dedicated area of the hard disk.
You can recover the machine from the network folder if the machine’s hard disk drive fails.
4.5.5.2 Example 2. Limiting the age and total size of stored backups
Consider the following scenario:
You want to perform a weekly full backup of your machine.
You want to keep all backups that are younger than a month.
You want to keep even older backups, as long as the total size of all backups stays below 200 GB.
In this scenario, create a backup plan with the Custom scheme. When creating the backup plan,
specify a weekly schedule for the full backup. In Clean up archive, select Using retention rules.
Click Retention rules, select the Backups older than and the Archive size greater than check boxes,
and specify respectively 1 month and 200 GB. In If the specified conditions are met, select Delete
the oldest backups.
Click OK. In Apply retention rules, select the After backup check box.
Result:
Backups that are younger than one month are kept, regardless of their total size.
Backups that are older than one month are kept only if the total size of all backups (older plus
younger) does not exceed 200 GB. Otherwise, the software deletes some or all of the older
backups, starting from the oldest one.
