How to do a custom backup similar to always incremental but incorporate also differential backups
I have to backup some servers that have to be replicated to a remote site using a slow wan line.
At first though I would go with the always incremental scheme. However this would not be a good solution due to the large retension policy (62 days).
Is there a way to do a custom backup plan that will perform a full backup once and then differential every friday and incremental the other days and also consolidate older than 62 days incremental to the full to roll it forward?
PS: My thought was to do the following custom plan:
full: 29th of february (Theoretically it will be performed every 4 years)
inremental: tue-thu
differential: friday
Retrension Rules: Cleanup Backups older than 62 days.
if a backup to be moved or deleted has dependencies: Consolidate
I do not know what will exactly happen when the full backup gets older than 62 days.

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Hi Vasily,
Indeed I tested it and it works as I wanted to.
Can you also confirm that the consolidation on a centrallized managed vault will be done from the storage node?
I want to be sure that just the incrementals are sent over a slow wan line and the storage node on the remote side will execute the consolidation to offload the line.
I also gues that if you do the same on an unmanaged vault the full backup will have to be transferred back to the original site, consolidate and then send back to the remote site.
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Hi Eugene,
The consolidation process is triggered by the backup agent, but performed on the Acronis Storage Node side in case backups are saved to managed centralized vault. In case of unmanaged vault the consolidation will be performed by the backup agent itself, so it will access the archive over network and cause additional traffic.
Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager
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