Retention

retention

Acronis Storage Node can only run one cleanup task on a centralized managed vault at a time. As a result, the tasks queue

Description of the most common issues with retention rules

If an archive is saved to an RDX or Iomega REV drive, there will be no possibility to apply retention rules or mount it

You can set up backup cleanup rules that are used to manage backups created by Acronis vmProtect

If an archive is saved to an RDX or Iomega REV drive, there will be no possibility to apply retention rules or mount it

How to set up retention of archives in Acronis Backup

Issue

I need to point the Acronis Cloud Security Management Server to a new SQL server to perform backup, restore and retention. How do I do this?

Resolution

Please customize the following file:

C:\Program Files\5nine\5nine Cloud Security Management Service\5nine.VirtualFirewall.ManagementService.exe.Config

 

And make a change in the following line:

<connectionStrings>

    <add name="SqlConnection" connectionString="Data Source=SERVER\SQLEXPRESS​

Issue

I need to point the Acronis Cloud Security Management Server to a new SQL server to perform backup, restore and retention. How do I do this?

Resolution

Please customize the following file:

C:\Program Files\5nine\5nine Cloud Security Management Service\5nine.VirtualFirewall.ManagementService.exe.Config

 

And make a change in the following line:

<connectionStrings>

Symptoms

  1. You create a plan to backup disks/partitions with the following parameters:
    • Backup format: Version 12 (.tibx)
    • Where to backup: internal or external disk
    • Backup scheme: full backup + differential backups
    • Cleanup: by number of backups (e.g. maximum number of backups= 3)
  2. You run the backup task several times;

Symptoms

Retention rules on tape do not work: old backups are not overwritten.

Cause

Specifics of product design.

When retention rules are applied to an archive, the backup that should be retained is not deleted from the tape but is marked for deletion. Backups stored on tapes are not deleted until the tape is overwritten. 

Solution

By default, Activities in Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 are kept for 1 year.

To change for how long the Activities are retained, do the following:

Symptoms

  1. You set up a backup task with cleanup scheme By number of backups and choose to start cleanup before backup.

  2. After you run the backup several times, recovery points in Show backups show one more recovery point than the number of backups specified.

Cause

This is by design.

Introduction

This article explains how to change the maximum size and a maximum number of stored logs for some product services on the Agent machine. This may be useful if logs take too much space, or in case you need to keep logs for longer than usual.

Solution

Acronis Managed Machine Service:

  1. On the machine with Agent, open mms.config file for editing.

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud:

Introduction

For clarity of the article, we will define two terms: “backup type” and “backup sets”.