Using the ATIS management module interface, you can schedule crontab to start backup imaging tasks at specified time. The tasks will be performed by the ATIS application installed on your server.
To schedule a new backup task:
If you set the frequency to weekly or monthly, select the Backup day from the list below.
The list of partitions shows the hard disk structure of your server, including the relative path point and the type of disk file systems (Mount point and File system type column). You must select at least one partition for backup. You can select a random set of partitions.
/backup
or /var/backup
. You can configure Acronis True Image Server to save backup files on both hard and removable drives.
The name can contain only latin symbols, digits, and "-_,." symbols. The name must start with a letter only. The maximum number of symbols is 200.
The items in this drop-down list range from 0 (no compression) to 9 (maximum compression). If you select 0, the backup will be imaged without any compression, which will increase the backup file size. If you select the maximum compression level, it will take longer for the application to create the backup. It is recommended that you set the compression level to medium values, for example 4 or 5.
Complete backup images contain all sectors within the selected partition(s), including operating system files and your data. Incremental backup images includes only the data that have changed since the last time a backup was created. Incremental backup file names are created as follows: if the first complete backup file is tmp.tib
, the subsequent incremental backup files will be named as tmp1.tib
, tmp2.tib
, etc.
Thus, if you are creating a backup for this partition(s) for the first time or you have made significant changes to the system after the last time the backup was created, it is better to create a complete backup. If you have recently created a backup image of the selected partition(s), incremental backup is recommended.
The maximum password length is 30 symbols.
After the scheduled task creation procedure is complete, the backup creation task will appear in the list of scheduled backup tasks and in the list of cron tasks for superuser (root).
Note: To view the task in crontab, select Server in the navigation pane and click Crontab on the Server administration page.
To remove a scheduled backup task:
The task will be removed from the list of scheduled backup tasks in the module and from the cron tasks.
To edit settings of a scheduled backup task, click the frequency of the task in the Period column and edit task settings on the next page.