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In Tape pool, select the pool where you will back up to (the Acronis pool or the newly
created one).
7. When creating a centralized backup plan (p. 357):
In Items to back up, select the machines you want to back up.
Choose the created vault as the backup destination.
Select the Custom backup scheme.
Specify the schedules for full and incremental backups.
In Clean up archive, select Using retention rules, and then click Retention rules. Specify the
retention rule to delete backups older than 1 week.
8. Each Friday, before a new full backup runs, eject the loaded tape set and insert the other one. If
your tape device contains a barcode reader, perform the fast inventorying. Otherwise, perform
the full inventorying.
Result
The tape sets will be used in turns. After a tape set is inserted, its tapes will be sequentially
overwritten.
7.4.6.3 Example 3. Disk-to-disk-to tape with sending tapes to an off-site
storage
Consider the following scenario:
You want to back up a machine to a hard disk and replicate each backup to the locally attached
tape device.
You want to eject tapes with each backup and send them to an off-site storage.
Sequence of actions
1. Load tapes 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. Create a personal vault (p. 214) and associate your pool with it.
6. When creating a backup plan (p. 55):
Specify a local folder as the backup destination.
Set up the required backup scheme.
Select the Replicate newly created backup to another location check box, click 2nd location,
and select the created vault in the tree.
Click Backup options, click Tape management (p. 126) in the tree, and select the Eject tapes
after successful backups check box.
