Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Creating Centralized Vaults

How to create centralized vaults in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10

This article applies to:

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Small Business Server Edition
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server - Virtual Edition
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Workstation

Introduction

A vault is a location for storing backup archives.

A managed vault is a centralized vault managed by Acronis Storage Node. To access a managed vault, user must have an Administrator account on the machine where Acronis Storage Node is installed.

An unmanaged vault is a centralized vault that is not managed by Acronis Storage Node. To access an unmanaged vault, user needs to have access privileges for the network location of the vault.

Solution

Before creating a centralized vault you need to install Acronis Storage Node and add it to Acronis Management Server. See Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Adding Storage Node to Acronis Management Server.

Creating a centralized managed vault

Run Acronis Management Console and connect to Acronis Management Server:
Go to Vaults -> Centralized and press Create:
Specify a unique name for the vault:
Select the vault type: Managed:
In the Storage Node field, select the storage node that will manage this vault:
In the Path field, press Change and specify where the archives will be stored. A managed vault can store archives in the following locations:
- on hard drives local to the storage node
- on a network share
- on a Storage Area Network (SAN)
- on a Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- on a tape library locally attached to the storage node.
(!) A vault can only be created in an empty folder.
Specify a local folder on the storage server to create a vault database. This database will store the metadata required for managing archives and performing deduplication:
Select whether to use deduplication in the vault:

(!) To use deduplication, you need to have Deduplication licenses in Acronis License Server and need to have Deduplication installed on Acronis Agents.

See also Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Deduplication Best Practices.
If you want to encrypt the vault, press Change in the Encryption field:

Check the Encrypt box, specify a password to generate an encryption key and select the encryption algorithm:
Check the parameters of vault creation and press OK to create a centralized managed vault:
The created vault will appear in the list of centralized vaults on Acronis Management Server:

Creating a centralized unmanaged vault

Run Acronis Management Console and connect to Acronis Management Server:
Go to Vaults -> Centralized and press Create:
Specify a unique name for the vault:
Select the vault type: Unmanaged:
In the Path field, press Change and specify where the archives will be stored. An unmanaged vault can be organized:
- on a network share
- on a Storage Area Network (SAN)
- on a Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- on FTP and SFTP servers.
Check the parameters of vault creation and press OK to create a centralized unmanaged vault:

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