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Personal tape-based vaults
Before backing up a machine to a directly attached tape device, you can create a personal vault. If
you do not want to, the software will automatically create a personal vault associated with the
Acronis pool.
If you create more than one personal vault, tapes with backups will be placed in the respective pools
specified in the vaults' settings. However, each vault will show all the backups located in all of the
vaults.
To create a personal vault:
1. In the Navigation tree, click Vaults.
2. Click Create.
3. Proceed as described in the "Creating a personal vault" (p. 191) section.
Managed centralized tape-based vaults
To back up a machine to a tape device attached to a storage node, you need to create a managed
centralized vault on the tape device.
To create a managed centralized vault:
1. In the Navigation tree, click Storage nodes.
2. Select the required storage node, and then click Create vault.
3. Proceed as described in the "Creating a managed centralized vault" (p. 183) section.
Tip. If you back up multiple machines to a tape library with multiple drives, associate the vault with
the whole library. This will allow you to back up the machines simultaneously via different drives. If
you associate a vault or several vaults with one drive, backups will be queued.
7.4.6 Usage examples
Apart from the examples described in this section, you can consider the following two examples:
Moving older backups to tapes for long-term retention (p. 104) (disk-to-disk-to-tape)
Backing up to tapes within a narrow backup window (p. 104)
7.4.6.1 Example 1. A tape autoloader and 12 tapes
Consider the following scenario:
You have 12 tapes and a tape autoloader attached to the machine whose data you want to back
up.
You want to back up the machine data so that if there is insufficient space on a tape, the backup
continues onto another one.
When all of the tapes are filled, you want them to be overwritten sequentially without any user
interaction.
You need a separate pool for the backup plan that will perform this scenario. If you have or are
planning to create other backup plans that write to the same tape device, use other pools for those
plans.
Sequence of actions
1. Load your tapes into the autoloader slots.
