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2. Perform the fast inventorying (p. 212) with the Move newly detected tapes from the
'Unrecognized tapes' or 'Imported tapes' pools to the 'Free tapes' pool check box selected.
Result. The loaded tapes are in the Free tapes pool. If some of them are sent to the Acronis pool
or a custom pool, this means the tapes contain backups you did earlier on this machine. Move (p.
209) such tapes to the Free tapes pool manually if you don't need these backups.
3. Decide whether you want to back up to the default Acronis pool (p. 207) or to create a new pool
(p. 208). In either case, clear the Take tapes from the Free tapes pool automatically... check box
in the settings of the chosen pool.
4. Move all of the loaded tapes from the Free tapes pool to the chosen pool.
5. Create a personal vault (p. 214) and associate your pool with it.
6. When creating a backup plan (p. 55):
Select your vault as the backup location.
Select the Custom backup scheme. Set the backup schedules in such a way that the whole
set of 12 tapes contains at least two full backups. This will allow the software to overwrite
tapes as appropriate.
In Clean up archive, select When there is insufficient space while backing up.
Result
The backup plan will use only the tapes located in the selected pool. When all of the tapes are full,
the oldest tape will be overwritten, and so on.
7.4.6.2 Example 2. Backing up to tapes on a weekly rotational basis
Consider the following scenario:
You want to back up several machines to a tape device attached to Acronis Backup Storage Node.
You want to create full backups on Fridays and incremental ones on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays.
You want to use two tape sets, each one to be written over a week. A set of tapes from a week
that has just passed should be ejected and replaced with the other set which will be later
overwritten in turn. This way of working can be useful if the number of slots of your tape device
is only enough for backing up during a week.
Sequence of actions
1. Load one of your tape sets into the tape device slots.
2. Perform the fast inventorying (p. 212) with the Move newly detected tapes from the
'Unrecognized tapes' or 'Imported tapes' pools to the 'Free tapes' pool check box selected.
Result. The loaded tapes are in the Free tapes pool. If some of them are sent to the Acronis pool
or a custom pool, this means the tapes contain backups you did earlier on this machine. Move (p.
209) such tapes to the Free tapes pool manually if you don't need these backups.
3. Decide whether you want to back up to the default Acronis pool (p. 207) or to create a new pool
(p. 208).
4. If the chosen pool is not replenishable (p. 448), move all of the loaded tapes from the Free tapes
pool to it.
5. Eject the loaded tape set. Repeat steps 1, 2 and 4 for the other tape set.
6. Create a managed vault (p. 183). When creating the vault:
In Drives, select the entire tape device. This will enable simultaneous backup of the machines
via different drives, if your tape device has more than one drive.
