To create a managed centralized vault, perform the following steps
Vault
Name
Specify a unique name for the vault. Creation of two centralized vaults with the same name is prohibited.
Comments
[Optional] Enter the distinctive description of the vault being created.
Type
Select the Managed type.
Storage node
Select the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Storage Node that will manage the vault.
Deduplication
[Optional] Select whether to enable archive deduplication in the vault. Deduplication minimizes storage space taken by the archives and backup traffic. It reduces the size of archives in the vault by eliminating redundant data such as duplicate files or disk blocks.
Deduplication is not possible on tape devices.
To learn more about how deduplication works, see the Deduplication section.
[Optional] Select whether to protect the vault with encryption. Anything written to the vault will be encrypted and anything read from it will be decrypted transparently by the storage node, using a vault-specific encryption key stored on the storage node.
A vault located on a tape device cannot be protected with encryption.
Specify where the vault will be created. Managed vaults can reside on a network share, SAN, NAS, tape device, or on a hard drive local to the storage node.
Place deduplication database along with backups (available only if the Deduplication is enabled)
The deduplication database stores the hash values of all items stored in the vault—except for those that cannot be deduplicated, such as encrypted files.
If the vault is created on the disk local to the storage node, the deduplication database is placed to the same vault (the Place deduplication database along with backups check box is selected).
If the vault is created on the network share, the Place deduplication database along with backups check box is disabled, and you have to specify a path to the deduplication database manually.
Placing the deduplication database along with backups may result in system performance slowdown. To improve the system performance, we recommend you to create the deduplication database and the managed vault on different disks.
Deduplication database (available only if the Deduplication is enabled)
Specify a folder on the storage node local disks or SAN to create the deduplication database.
Drives
[Optional] If the vault is created on a tape device, specify the tape drive(s) to be used when backing up to the vault. By default, all available drives will be used. Click the down arrow and select or clear required check boxes.
Tape pool
[Optional] If the vault is created on a tape device, specify the pool whose tapes will be used by the vault. By default, the Acronis pool is selected.
Catalog database
[Optional] Specify where the data catalog database will be placed.
Backward compatibility
To access this option, click Show backward compatibility.
[Optional] Select whether to make the vault backward compatible for working with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents.
What you need to know about backward compatible vaults:
- A vault located on a tape device cannot be backward compatible.
- Agents of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 can back up to a vault regardless of its backward compatibility property.
- You cannot specify vault administrators and vault users for a backward compatible vault.
- When the console is connected to an Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent, the Data view tab for a vault is not displayed.
- Backups created by Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 are cataloged automatically. To include backups created by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in the data catalog, click the update the catalog now link on the Data view tab of the vault. Please be aware that the cataloging procedure may be time and resource consuming.
Compression
[Optional] Select whether to compress the deduplication data stores. This setting is available only if the backward compatibility is turned on and deduplication is enabled.
User accounts
Add groups or user accounts that will have administrator rights on this vault. Vault administrators can view and manage all the archives stored in the vault. Acronis Centralized Admins and members of the Administrators group on the storage node are considered as vault administrators by default.
Add groups or user accounts that will have user rights on this vault. Vault users can view and manage only their own archives in the vault. By default, the Everyone group of the storage node is added to the vault users.
After you have performed all the required steps, click OK to commit creating the managed vault.