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To attach a managed vault to a storage node, perform the following steps.
Vault
Storage node
Select the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node that will manage the vault.
Path
Specify the path to the location where the archives are stored.
Database path
Specify a local folder on the storage server to create a vault-specific database. This database
will store the metadata required for cataloguing the archives and performing deduplication.
Password
For the vault that was encrypted, provide the encryption password.
After you have performed all the required steps, click
OK
to commit to attaching the vault. This
procedure may last for quite a while since the storage node has to scan the archives, write the
metadata in the database, and deduplicate the archives if the vault was originally deduplicating.
4.1.3
Tape libraries
This section describes in detail how to use robotic tape devices as vaults for storing backup archives.
A tape library (robotic library) is a high-capacity storage device that contains the following:
one or more tape drives
multiple (up to several thousand) slots to hold tape cartridges
one or more loaders (robotic mechanisms) intended for relocating the tape cartridges between
the slots and the tape drives
barcode readers (optional).
4.1.3.1
Overview
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides full support of a tape library through Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10 Storage Node. The storage node should be installed on the machine a tape library is
attached to. Storage node can simultaneously use more than one tape library for keeping archives.
To manage a tape library media, the storage node uses the Windows Removable Storage Manager
(RSM). See the RSM Media Pools (p. 140) section for more information.
A dedicated database of the storage node keeps information of the backup content written onto the
tapes. So some operations (for example, Cleanup (p. 401)) can be performed quite fast without
accessing the media. It is possible to view the content of a backup archive located on a tape through
the console, even if a tape library is turned off, due to content information stored in the database. To
create an incremental or differential backup of data, the program uses the database instead of
loading, mounting, rewinding and reading a tape with the full data backup. However, a tape should
be read, for example, to validate (p. 410) a backup or to recover data from a backup.
A tape library can be locally attached to a machine the agent is installed on, but only in the case the
library is considered as a single tape drive. The agent can use such device to write and read data
backups, but the backup’s format differs from the format of the backups on the tapes written
through the storage node. To get information about the readability of the archives on tapes, written
