Backup Scheduling & Automation Flashcards

What Acronis technology enables backup jobs to run without significant impact on production workloads by limiting resource usage?

Answer: Throttling

Throttling in Acronis limits CPU and network bandwidth consumption during backup to reduce impact on production systems.

In Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, which object allows MSPs to apply one backup plan to hundreds of devices simultaneously?

Answer: Protection plan

A Protection Plan in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can be applied to device groups, automating consistent coverage across many endpoints.

What happens to a differential backup chain in Acronis if the base full backup is deleted?

Answer: The entire differential chain becomes unrestorable

Differential backups depend on the base full backup for restoration; deleting the full backup invalidates the entire chain.

Which Acronis scheduler option ensures that backups across multiple devices do not all start simultaneously, avoiding storage bottlenecks?

Answer: Randomize backup start time

Randomizing backup start times spreads backup jobs across a time window to prevent simultaneous storage hits.

An Acronis protection plan is set to run incremental backups every 4 hours. What is the maximum potential data loss (RPO) in this configuration?

Answer: Up to 4 hours

With 4-hour incremental intervals, up to 4 hours of data can be lost if a failure occurs just before the next backup.

Which Acronis feature automates the transfer of backups to a secondary location after the primary backup completes?

Answer: Backup replication

Backup replication in Acronis automatically copies finished backups to a secondary destination for offsite or redundant storage.

In Acronis, which retention rule removes backup versions that exceed a specified age regardless of how many versions exist?

Answer: By age of versions

The 'By age of versions' retention rule deletes backup versions older than the configured time period.