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Backup plans, backup policies, and tasks
A backup plan consists of one or more tasks.
Backup plans can be local or centralized. A local backup plan is created on a machine directly,
whereas a centralized backup plan is created as a result of deploying a backup policy.
Some tasks, such as recovery tasks and tasks running on Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node,
do not belong to any backup plan.
Information about all tasks, backup plans, and backup policies is contained in the
Tasks
,
BackupPlans
,
and
Policies
views, respectively. The
ID
column in each view uniquely identifies the corresponding
entry.
In the
Tasks
view, the
BackupPlanID
column stores the unique identifier of the backup plan to which
the task belongs.
In the
BackupPlans
view, for centralized backup plans, the
PolicyID
column stores the identifier of
the backup policy on which the backup plan is based.
Vaults, storage nodes, and archives and backups
The
Vaults
view contains information about all centralized vaults—both managed and unmanaged.
The
ID
column uniquely identifies the vault.
For a managed vault, the
HostID
column of this view stores the unique identifier of the storage node
that manages the vault.
The
ArchivesAndBackups
view contains information about all archives and backups that are stored in
the managed vaults. The
VaultID
column in this view identifies the managed vault in which the
archive is stored.
