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A new level 3 differential backup has not yet been created, so the backup of day five is still stored.
Since it depends on the full backup of day one, that backup is available as well. This enables us to go
as far back as 11 days, which is the best-case scenario.
The following day, however, a new third-level differential backup is created, and the old full backup is
deleted.
This gives us only a four day recovery interval, which turns out to be the worst-case scenario.
On day 14, the interval is five days. It increases on subsequent days before decreasing again, and so
on.
The roll-back period shows how many days we are guaranteed to have even in the worst case. For a
four-level scheme, it is four days.
4.2.5.6 Manual start
With the Manual start scheme, you do not have to specify the backup schedule. You can run the
backup plan from the Plans and Tasks view manually at any time afterwards.
Specify the appropriate settings as follows.
Backup type
Select the type of backup
Full - selected by default for all backup locations (except for Acronis Online Backup Storage).
Incremental. At the first time a full backup will be created. The next backups will be
incremental. Selected as the one and only backup type for Acronis Online Backup Storage.
Differential. At the first time a full backup will be created. The next backups will be
differential.
4.2.5.7 Initial seeding
This backup scheme is only available when you have an Initial Seeding license and selected the Online
Backup Storage as the backup destination.
Initial seeding enables you to transfer the first backup, which is full and usually the largest, to the
online storage on a hard drive instead of over the Internet. Subsequent backups, which are all
incremental and thus usually much smaller, can be transferred over the Internet after the full backup
has arrived in the online storage.
If you back up a large amount of data, initial seeding ensures faster delivery of the backed-up data
and lower traffic costs.
Please refer to the "Initial Seeding FAQ (p. 349)" section for more details.
4.2.6 Backup location selection
Specify where the archive will be stored.
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