In today’s digital age, safeguarding your valuable data is paramount. Acronis backup solution offers robust solutions to protect critical information from unexpected disasters or data loss scenarios.
Setting up a protection plan with Acronis ensures reliable backups and a streamlined recovery process. Whether protecting personal files or managing business data, this guide will walk you through the steps to create and configure a protection plan using Acronis’ intuitive Management Console.
Let’s dive into the essential steps to safeguard your online project!
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Steps to Create a Protection Plan
This article discusses how to create a backup plan for a device. To do this, follow the following steps:
➔ Log in to your Acronis account through the Acronis Management Console using your credentials.
➔ In the Cyber Protect web console, navigate to ‘Devices’ and select ‘All Devices.’
➔ In that, choose the machine you want to protect. (Please note that you have already set up your machine in the Acronis panel).
➔ You will see a ‘Settings’ icon on the right side of the machine. Click on it to access the settings.
➔ In that, click the ‘Protect’ option.
➔ After that, select ‘Create Plan’ & click on ‘Protection.’ With this, the protection plan will appear with the default settings.
To change the default settings, follow these steps:
♦ To change the protection plan name, click the ‘pencil icon’ beside it.
♦ To turn a protection plan module ON or OFF, click the ‘toggle switch’ next to the module’s name.
♦ To adjust the module settings, click the relevant section of the protection plan.
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➔ It’s time to select data for backup:
- If you want to back up a full machine, select ‘Entire machine’ in the ‘What to back up’ section.
- If you want a disk-level backup that contains a copy of a disk or a volume in a packaged form, follow these steps:
- You need to select ‘Disks/volumes’ in ‘What to back up.’
- In that, click ‘Specify’ in ‘Items to back up.’
- In Select items for backup, select ‘Using policy rules’
★ What are the Policy Rules?
The policy rules will apply to all machines covered by the protection plan. If a machine does not contain any data that meets at least one of these rules when the backup begins, the backup on that machine will fail).
- Select the ‘Policy Rules’ from the dropdown.
- In the end, just click ‘OK.’
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- If you want a file-level backup (a backup level available for physical and virtual machines with an installed agent in the guest system, you can opt for file backup. However, a file-level backup does not provide the capability to recover the entire operating system)
Opt for file backup if your goal is to protect specific data, such as a current project. This approach will minimize the backup size, thereby conserving storage space.
follow the steps given below.
- You need to select ‘Files/folders’ in ‘What to back up.’
- In that, click on ‘Specify’ in the ‘Items to back up’ option.
- In Select items for backup, select ‘Using policy rules’
★ What are the Policy Rules?
Choose from the predefined rules, create your own, or combine both. These policy rules will be enforced on all machines included in the protection plan. If no data matching at least one of the rules is found on a machine when the backup begins, the backup for that machine will fail.
- In that, Select the ‘Policy Rules’ from the dropdown.
- In the end, just click ‘OK.’
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- It’s time to set retention policies to control how long backup versions are retained. To do this, follow these steps:
- Firstly click ‘How many to keep.’
- In the ‘Cleanup’ section, choose one of the following:
- By backup age: This will specify how long to keep backups created by the protection plan.
- By default, the retention rules are specified for each backup set separately. If you prefer to use a single rule for all backups, click ‘Switch to a single rule for all backup sets.’
- By the number of backups: This option sets the maximum number of backups to keep.
- Keep backups indefinitely: This specifies that the backups will be stored permanently without any set expiration date. They will be retained in the cloud storage until you manually delete them.
- Now you have to select when to start the cleanup:
- After backup: Retention rules are applied after a new backup is created.
- Before backup: Retention rules are applied before creating a new backup. This setting is unavailable when backing up Microsoft SQL Server clusters or Microsoft Exchange Server clusters.
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Conclusion
By following these steps for taking backup in Acronis solution, you can ensure that your critical data remains secure and accessible, minimizing the impact of potential data loss incidents. Regular maintenance and testing of backup and recovery processes are essential to maintaining the effectiveness of your protection plans over time.