Limitations

The limitations of tape device usage are the following:

1. The consolidation of backups located on tapes is not possible. As a result, usage of backup schemes has certain peculiarities.
2. The deduplication of backups located on tapes is not possible.
3. Simplified naming of backup files is not possible for backups stored on tapes.
4. You cannot recover under an operating system from a backup stored on tapes if the recovery requires the operating system reboot. Use bootable media to perform such recovery.
5. You cannot recover individual files from a disk-level backup stored on tapes. For that reason, the data catalog does not show files and folders in disk-level backups.
6. You can validate any backup or archive stored on tapes, but you cannot select for validation an entire tape-based vault or tape device.
7. You cannot attach or detach a tape-based vault.
8. A managed tape-based vault cannot be protected with encryption. Encrypt your archives instead.
9. You cannot create a managed tape-based vault with the backward compatibility property. This means that Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agents cannot back up to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 managed tape-based vaults.
10. The software cannot simultaneously write one backup to multiple tapes or multiple backups through the same drive to the same tape.
11. Devices that use the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) are not supported.
12. Barcode printers are not supported.