Simple vs Advanced Schedule

Use this table to select the schedule that better suits your needs.

Use Case	Simple schedule	Advanced schedule
Long-Term Retention (GFS). If you need backups from previous quarters and years.	❌	✔️
Regulatory Compliance. Data must be preserved, unaltered, for a fixed period by law.	❌	✔️
Ransomware Protection. Preventing attackers from deleting or encrypting backup data for extortion.	❌	✔️
Legal Hold. Need to preserve data for an indeterminate time due to litigation.	❌	✔️
Secure Logging. Preventing attackers from covering their tracks by deleting logs	❌	✔️
Immutable Backups. Protection against accidental or malicious deletion of recovery data.	❌	✔️
Short term backups only. If you need reserve copies for the last 3 months only.	✔️	❌
Storage Efficiency & Cost Savings. Dramatically reduces storage footprint. After the initial full backup, only changed data (incrementals) is transferred and stored.	✔️	❌
Fast Backup (Windows). Minimal backup windows needed, because only changed blocks are read from the source system each day.	✔️	❌
Backup of Virtualized Environments. VM backups need to be fast and storage-efficient to protect a large number of VMs	✔️	❌
Slow internet connection. Minimizes network load. Only the initial full backup is large. Subsequent backups are small and fast, easily fitting within bandwidth constraints and backup windows	✔️	❌