Working with vaults

This section briefly describes the main GUI elements of the selected vault, and suggests ways to work with them.

Examining information on a vault

Information about the selected vault is located at the top pane of the selected vault. Using the stacked bar, you can estimate the vault's load. The vault's load is the proportion of the vault's free space and occupied space (not available if the vault is located on a tape library). Free space is a space on the storage device where the vault is located. For example, if the vault is located on a hard disk, the vault free space is the free space of the respective volume. Occupied space is the total size of backup archives and their metadata, if it is located in the vault.

You can obtain the total number of archives and backups stored in the vault and full path to the vault.

For managed vaults only, you can examine the name of the storage node that manages the vault, encryption and deduplication states.

Browsing the vault contents and data selection

You can browse the vault content and select data to recover by using the Data view tab or the Archive view tab.

Data view

The Data view tab lets you browse and select the backed up data by versions (backup date and time). The Data view tab shares the same searching and cataloging functionality with the data catalog.

Archive view

The Archive view tab displays the backed up data by archives. Use the Archive view to perform operations with archives and backups stored in the vault. For more information about these operations, see the following sections:

• Operations with archives stored in a vault.
• Operations with backups.
• Sorting, filtering and configuring table items.

What does the icon mean?

When browsing archives on the Archive view tab, you may encounter a backup with the icon. This icon means that the backup is marked for deletion but cannot be deleted immediately for any of the following reasons:

• Other backups depend on it, but consolidation is either not possible or disabled by retention rules.
• The backup is stored on a tape.

You cannot perform any operation on backups marked for deletion. They disappear from the Archive view after they are physically deleted. This happens when all of the dependent backups are also deleted, or when the tape is overwritten, or at next cleanup after you enable consolidation in the retention rules.