Acronis Product Fundamentals & Architecture Flashcards

Which backup scheme in Acronis Cyber Protect creates a full backup on the first run and then stores only changes relative to the most recent backup of ANY type?

Answer: Incremental scheme

The incremental backup scheme stores changes made since the last backup of any type (full or incremental), resulting in the smallest individual backup size.

What does the 'grandfather-father-son' (GFS) retention model in Acronis primarily control?

Answer: How long daily, weekly, and monthly backup copies are kept before deletion

GFS retention assigns different lifespans to daily (son), weekly (father), and monthly (grandfather) backups, balancing recovery granularity with storage consumption.

In Acronis Cyber Protect, granular recovery of individual files from a disk-level backup is possible because the product:

Answer: Mounts the backup archive as a virtual volume and browses its filesystem

Acronis mounts disk-level backup archives as virtual drives, allowing the filesystem to be browsed and individual files or folders to be recovered without restoring the entire disk.

Which scheduling option in Acronis Cyber Protect triggers a backup immediately when it detects that the machine was offline during a previously scheduled backup window?

Answer: Missed backup run recovery

The 'missed backup run recovery' option tells the agent to launch the skipped backup as soon as the machine comes back online after missing its scheduled window.

What is the purpose of backup validation in Acronis Cyber Protect?

Answer: It verifies data integrity by checking checksums of all backed-up data blocks

Validation reads every data block in the backup archive and verifies checksums to confirm the archive is not corrupted and can be used for recovery.

When using Acronis Cyber Protect's 'Always Incremental (Single-file)' backup scheme, how are backup chains stored?

Answer: As a single continuously growing .tibx file that self-manages its internal structure

The Always Incremental scheme stores all backups inside a single .tibx container file, where Acronis manages full, incremental, and cleanup operations internally.

In Acronis Cyber Protect, what happens to recovery points when a retention rule is triggered during a backup job?

Answer: The new backup is created first, then outdated recovery points are cleaned up afterward

Acronis applies the cleanup AFTER the new backup completes successfully, ensuring there is always at least one valid recovery point available even during the cleanup process.