A vault is a location for storing backup archives
Vault
vault
To restore from an unmanaged vault, browse to the network share or local folder where the archive is. To restore from a centralized managed vault, click on Storage node, type in the IP Addres or computer name of the machine where Acronis Storage Node is
Description of tape pools and operations with them in Acronis Backup Advanced (Acronis Backup & Recovery Advanced)
This article explains the general concept of archives and backups as realized in Acronis Backup & Recovery, and how one can resume previous backups into the same archive
While deleting vault select to keep backups stored in the vault.
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup (Acronis Backup & Recovery)
Troubelshoot tape usage issues
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup Advanced
Introduction
Acronis Backup Advanced provides advanced capabilities in setting up tape storage and using it for backup and replication. Incorrect settings and usage may lead to unexpected results and problems. This article describes the Tape Management functionality, settings, contains correct and incorrect usage examples and provides troubleshooting steps for issue resolution.
Restart the Acronis Storage Node Service to fix the issue
Instructions on finding backups in an offline managed vault
If you need to move vault from one place to another, please proceed as described below at the Solution section:
Acronis Backup Advaced 11.7/11.5, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced
Remove Storage Node and re-add it
Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7, Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5) and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 centralized unmanaged vault metadata and locks differ from those of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
The issue is fixed starting with the build number 37608.
Find and set the former ID for the Storage Node instance in registry settings
Acronis Backup 11.7/11.5: Cataloging of an Empty Managed Vault Fails with "Access denied for object"
Ignore the error. Cataloging will succeed after the first backup to this vault
Using Acronis Backup in a multihomed environment
Symptoms
You attempt to refresh content of vault in Cyber Protection console by pressing Refresh button. Operation fails with error message similar to (Vault ID and archive ID will be different):
Symptoms
You get the following error messages when attempting to use a backup location with deduplication as backup destination:
There is an error in the hash database
and
Database disk image is malformed
Cause
Deduplication database is corrupted, due to hardware issues with the storage or other reasons.
Solution
Rebuild the deduplication database by following the steps below:
Manually detaching a managed vault
Symptoms
- You created a managed location on Acronis Storage Node and saved a backup to it.
- You edited the managed location and renamed it.
- When you try to delete a backup from the renamed location, operation fails with:
Unknown location <old vault name>
How to upgrade tape vaults from Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 to Acronis Backup and Recovery 11
Symptoms
You have created a managed location with a network share as backend.
Credentials for this network share have changed, or you just want to switch to another user.
Solution
To change credentials for the managed location on the network share, delete the location and add it again with new credentials:
Symptoms
The used space of the backup location with Deduplication option enabled is seen incorrect via the product GUI:
Cause
Issue in the product. The backup location contains the tib files and the datastore files (unified_data.ds.0 or unified_data.ds.1 files). These datastore files contains the main backed up data and the sizes of these files are not counted.
Instructions on finding backups in an offline managed vault