Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud - Administrator's Guide - Manual (Page 33)

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After this public URL is specified, the backup service address for MyOrganization will look as follows:
https://www.backup.example.com/org/MyOrganization
1.6.1 Managing system backup plans
What is a backup plan?
A backup plan is a set of rules that defines how to protect virtual machines. The rules include the
backup schedule, retention rules, and backup options such as protecting backups with a password.
The backup service users create backup plans and apply them to their virtual machines.
What is a system backup plan?
In order to assist the backup service users, a system administrator can create ready-to-use backup
plans, called system backup plans.
When enabling backup for an organization, the system administrator specifies which of the system
backup plans will be available to the organization users. The users can apply these backup plans to
their virtual machines but cannot delete them or change their schedule and retention rules.
The following table lists the system backup plans that are initially delivered with the software.
Name Schedule Retention period
Daily Every day at 22:00 1 week
Weekly Every Friday at 22:00 4 weeks
Monthly Every 4 weeks on Friday at 22:00 48 weeks
These backup plans start at 22:00 according to the time settings of Agent for VMware. The dates and
times shown to a user are adjusted to the time zone of the user's machine. Therefore, users located
in different time zones may see different times although the schedule is the same.
Operations with system backup plans
A system administrator can edit the system backup plans, create new ones, and delete existing
backup plans.
To create or edit a system backup plan
Important: Editing a system backup plan will affect all organizations for which you made this backup plan
available.
1. Log in to the service.
2. Click the Settings tab.
3. Click System backup plans.
4. Depending on what you want to do, click Create or select the backup plan to edit, and then click
Edit.
5. In Name, type the name of the backup plan. The name must differ from names of other backup
plans in the list.
6. Specify the schedule and retention rules (p. 52) for the backup plan.
Details. Because a system backup plan can be distributed across many organizations, you cannot
enable backup options (such as encryption or notifications) when creating or editing the plan.
Instead, you can enable different backup options in each organization where the plan is available.