This guide details the process of importing a Protection Plan into your Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud tenant.
Protection Plans are the Acronis equivalent of a backup “policy”, “job” or “schedule” found in other data backup solutions.
These plans manage the scope, schedule, retention period and application awareness of your backup tasks, as well as a variety of other more advanced options.
NOTE: At least ONE Protection Plan must be assigned to a registered workload for backups to operate.
NOTICE: The steps in this guide can only be completed by an Acronis portal user with Cyber Protection Administrator or User permissions.
However, a Cyber Protection User will only be able to view and use Protection Plans imported by their own individual user.
Navigating to the Protection Plans section
Log in to the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud portal, found here:
https://backup.aci.servercontrol.com.au/loginThe default tenant username can be found in the MySAU portal, as shown in this guide:
How to access the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud portal
On the left-hand navigation bar, select “Management”.
This will land you on the “Protection plans” view by default.
Importing a Protection Plan
Before you import a Protection Plan from your local device, you’ll need to download one.
You can find a repository of SAU curated Protection Plans here:
Protection Plan templates
To import a Protection Plan, select the “Import” option on the right side of the window.
A file explorer window will open. Find and select the relevant downloaded Protection Plan to import it. You can even select more than one at a time!
Once imported, the Protection Plan(s) will appear in the list near the centre of the window.
In this example, the imported plan is named “Standard Backups (14 days)”.
You’ve successfully imported an Acronis Protection Plan!
If you’d like to import another Protection Plan later, simply repeat the steps in the Importing a Protection Plan section.
Cloning a Protection Plan
NOTE: Acronis Protection Plans can be shared across multiple backup workloads. Any edits made to an active plan will reflect upon ALL workloads protected by this plan.
If you wish to modify a plan (e.g. change retention period) for a single workload that is protected by a shared plan, you will need to clone this plan.
To clone a Protection Plan, select the relevant plan and click the “Clone” option on the right side of the window.
When cloning a Protection Plan, the “Create protection plan” utility will open, automatically appending “(clone)” to the end of the Protection Plan’s name.
From this view, you’re free to modify the plan’s name, along with any other settings (excluding encryption).
Once you’ve finished making changes to the cloned plan, save it by clicking the “Create” button.
If you wish to clone any other Protection Plans, or even the same plan multiple times, simply repeat the steps in the Cloning a Protection Plan section.