Taking backups with Acronis Cyber Backup

To take backups on the Acronis panel, you need to first create a Protection Plan. A Protection Plan is a set of rules that specify how the given data will be protected for a given VPS or Dedicated server.

A protection plan can be applied to multiple servers at any time. A server can also have multiple Protection Plans.

There are two ways to start backing up your server data:

• Create a new Protection Plan for your server.
• Use an existing Protection Plan for your server.

Create a new Protection Plan

1. Click Devices > All Devices

2. Select the machines that you want to back up.

3. Click Protect (If there are existing protection plans assigned to the server, they will be displayed on the panel. If no protection plan has been assigned, then the default protection plan will be displayed)

4. The new default plan will appear as follows:

5. You can quickly get started with your backups by clicking on  Apply

6. Alternatively, you can choose to customize your backup settings

   Field	Description	Our recommendation
   What to back up	Entire server or specific drives or folders can be backed up	Entire Machine backup
   Where to back up	The backup storage location	Cloud storage (This cannot be changed)
   Schedule	How your data gets backed up and is stored on the Cloud storage	Weekly full, daily incremental Select all 7 days Start time: 9 pm
   How long to keep	When to delete the older backup files	Weekly: 4 weeks Daily: 7 days
   Encryption	Whether your backups are encrypted or not	Turn on encryption
   Application backup	Backup of specific applications on your server like Oracle DB and cPanel accounts	We don’t have a strong recommendation here as long as your server backup is active
   Backup options	Advanced backup settings	Enable alerts for failed backups. Rest can be skipped

7. Click Apply/Create.

8. You can also click on the Run Now option to take an instantaneous backup.

Use an existing Protection Plan

1. Select the machines that you want to back up

2. Click Protect. If a common protection plan is already applied to the selected machines, click Add Plan. The panel displays previously created protection plans.

3. Select a protection plan to apply.

4. Click Apply.