Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide User Manual

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In the third step (Where to back up), select the location for storing your ESXi configuration backup
archive and archive name. Click Browse to open the pop-up, select the location among one of the
following and then click OK:

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Local folders.

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Network folders.

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FTP servers.

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SFTP servers.

ESXi backup is created only in the Multiple files backup scheme (legacy mode archive) (p. 9). The
Save all backups in one file (Recommended) option is disabled.

Select Automatically delete old backups check box to set up the clean up rules. The details for these
settings are explained in the “Where to back up” section (p. 33).

Select Copy the backup to a second location check box. The following settings allow you to configure
the backup copying options. Select the second location where you would also like to store your
backups and the archive name. Click Browse and select from the available list of locations.

From the When to copy drop-down list select if you would like to copy the backup to the second
location immediately after each backup is created. Or you can indicate the specific days for
performing your backup copy, other than the backup schedule days. In this case you can also choose
to copy all missed recovery points or copy last created recovery points only.

The Copy last created recovery points option might be useful when the first location selected is
sometimes unreachable. In case the Copy all missed recovery points option is selected and the
retention rules for the first storage are executed on the main location, then the software deletes the
recovery points that should be removed by these rules, even if these recovery points were not
copied to the second location. So when the retention rules are executed it is not checked if the
recovery points were already copied to the second storage or not.

By default, the backup type and the clean up rules for the copied backups are the same as the
respective primary backup settings. Meanwhile, you can choose to specify different settings, for
example, change the clean up rules options.

In the final step (How to Backup), select the Validate after backup check box, if necessary. Click
More options... to open the pop-up with additional settings. These options are described in the
Backup options (p. 39) section. Note that the following options will be unavailable: Archive
Protection, Additional Settings -> Deduplication, Additional Settings -> CBT backup.