You can copy or move a backup from any of these locations:
A local folder on a fixed drive
A network folder
An FTP or SFTP server
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node
Acronis Secure Zone
You can copy or move a backup to any of these locations:
A local folder on a fixed drive
A network folder
An FTP or SFTP server
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node
A tape device
Acronis Online Backup Storage
A removable device used in the Fixed drive mode. (You select the removable device mode when creating a backup plan.)
Backups that were copied or moved to the next location do not depend on the backups remaining in the original location and vice versa. You can recover data from any backup without access to other locations.
Restrictions
Copying or moving backups to and from optical discs (CD, DVD, Blu-ray discs) is not supported.
Copying or moving backups to and from removable devices used in the Removable media mode is not supported.
Copying or moving backups from Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node to a local folder is not supported. A local folder means a folder on the machine with the agent that created the backup.
A tape device and Acronis Online Backup Storage can only be the final locations. Further copying or moving backups from them is not possible.
You cannot specify the same location more than once. For example, you cannot move a backup from one folder to another and then back to the original folder.
Which machine performs the operation?
Copying, moving or deleting a backup from any location is initiated by the agent that created the backup, and is performed:
By that agent, if the location is not a managed vault.
By the corresponding storage node, if the location is a managed vault. However, copying or moving the backup from the managed vault to the online storage is performed by the agent that created the backup.
As follows from the above description, the operation will be performed only if the machine with the agent is powered on. If the operation is scheduled, the schedule will use that machine's date and time.
Copying and moving backups between managed vaults
Copying or moving a backup from one managed vault to another managed vault is performed by the storage node.
If the target vault is a deduplicating vault (possibly on a different storage node), the source storage node sends only those blocks of data that are not present in the target vault. In other words, like an agent, the storage node performs deduplication at source. This saves network traffic when you replicate data between geographically separated storage nodes.