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A vault is a location for storing backup archives

Description

A vault is a location for storing backup archives.

A vault can be organized on a local or networked drive, detachable media or a tape device attached to Storage Node.

There are no settings for limiting a vault size or number of backups in a vault. You can limit the size of each archive only using cleanup.

Centralized vaults

A centralized vault is a networked location allotted through Acronis Management Server.

• Managed vault

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

• Unmanaged vault

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

Personal vaults

A personal vault is the one created using direct connection of Acronis Management Console to a managed machine. Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine.

More information

See also:

• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Deleting the ".meta" Folder Is Not Recommended
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Acronis Storage Node Does Not Support Swapped Drives

A managed vault can be organized:

• on the 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.

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.