A centralized vault is a networked location allotted by the management server administrator to serve as storage for the backup archives. A centralized vault can be managed by a storage node or be unmanaged. The total number and size of archives stored in a centralized vault is limited by the storage size only.
As soon as the management server administrator commits to creating a centralized vault, the vault path and name are distributed to all machines registered on the server. The shortcut to the vault appears on the machines in the Vaults group. Any backup plan existing on the machines, including local plans, can use the centralized vault.
On a machine that is not registered on the management server, a user having the privilege to back up to the centralized vault can do so by specifying the full path to the vault. If the vault is managed, the user's archives, as well as other archives stored in the vault, will be managed by the storage node.
A managed vault is a centralized vault managed by a storage node.
The storage node performs cleanup and validation for each archive stored in the managed vault, as prescribed by the backup plans. When creating a managed vault, an administrator can specify additional operations that the storage node will perform: deduplication and encryption. For more information, see "Operations performed by storage nodes".
Any managed vault is self-contained, it contains all metadata the storage node needs to manage the vault. A vault can be attached to another storage node. The new storage node will retrieve the metadata from the vault and re-create the database that is necessary for managing the vault. For more information, see "Attaching a managed vault".
Accessing managed vaults
Users must have administrator or user privileges to access the vault. Administrators of the management server obtain the administrator privileges by default. Privileges for other users can be defined during the vault creation or editing. For more information, see "User privileges on a storage node".
An unmanaged vault is a centralized vault that is not managed by a storage node. To access an unmanaged vault, a user has to have access privileges for the location from the network.
Any user that has permission to read/write files in an unmanaged vault can:
Back up data to the unmanaged vault
Recover data from any backup located in the unmanaged vault.
View and manage all the archives located in the unmanaged vault.
Managed vaults