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backup to a detachable media. Then, send the media to the remote location. There the backup will
be exported from the media to the target storage. Subsequent incremental backups, which are
usually much smaller, can be transferred over the network.
By exporting a managed vault to a detachable media, you obtain a portable unmanaged vault that
can be used in the following scenarios:
keeping an off-site copy of your vault or of the most important archives
physical transportation of a vault to a distant branch office
recovery without access to the storage node in case of networking problems or failure of the
storage node
recovery of the storage node itself.
Export from an HDD-based vault to a tape device can be considered as simple on-demand archive
staging.
The resulting archive's name
By default, the exported archive inherits the name of the original archive. Because having multiple
archives of the same names in the same location is not advisable, the following actions are disabled
with the default archive name:
exporting part of an archive to the same location
exporting an archive or part of an archive to a location where an archive of the same name exists
exporting an archive or part of an archive to the same location twice
In any of the above cases, provide an archive name that is unique to the destination folder or vault. If
you need to redo the export using the same archive name, first delete the archive that resulted from
the previous export operation.
The resulting archive's options
The exported archive inherits the options of the original archive, including encryption and the
password. When exporting a password-protected archive, you are prompted for the password. If the
original archive is encrypted, the password is used to encrypt the resulting archive.
Source and destination locations
When the console is connected to a
managed machine
, you can export an archive or part of an
archive to and from any location accessible to the agent residing on the machine. These include
personal vaults, locally attached tape devices, removable media and, in the advanced product
versions, managed and unmanaged centralized vaults.
When the console is connected to a
management server
, two export methods are available:
export from a
managed vault
. The export is performed by the storage node that manages the
vault. The destination can be a network share or a local folder of the storage node.
export from an
unmanaged centralized vault
. The export is performed by the agent installed on
the managed machine you specify. The destination can be any location accessible to the agent,
including a managed vault.
Tip. When configuring export to a deduplicating managed vault, choose a machine where the deduplication
add-on to the agent is installed. Otherwise the export task will fail.
Operations with an export task
