130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-20104 VaultsA vault is a location for storing backup archives. For ease of use and administration, a vault isassociated with the archives' metadata. Referring to this metadata makes for fast and convenientoperations with archives and backups stored in the vault.A vault can be organized on a local or networked drive, detachable media or a tape device attachedto the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node.There are no settings for limiting a vault size or number of backups in a vault. You can limit the size ofeach archive using cleanup, but the total size of archives stored in the vault is limited by the storagesize only.Why create vaults?We recommend that you create a vault in each destination where you are going to store backuparchives. This will ease your work as follows.Quick access to the vaultYou will not have to remember paths to the folders where the archives are stored. When creating abackup plan or a task that requires selection of an archive or an archive destination place, the list ofvaults will be available for quick access without drilling down through the folders tree.Easy archive managementA vault is available for access from the Navigation pane. Having selected the vault, you can browsethe archives stored there and perform the following archive management operations: get a list of backups included in each archive recover data from a backup examine backup content validate all archives in the vault or individual archives or backups mount a volume backup to copy files from the backup to a physical disk safely delete archives and backups from the archives.Creating vaults is highly recommended but is not obligatory. You may choose not to use the shortcutsand always specify the full path to the archive vault. All of the above operations except for archiveand backup deletion can be performed without creating vaults.The operation of creating a vault results in adding the vault name to the Vaults section of theNavigation pane.Centralized and personal vaultsA centralized vault is a networked location allotted by the management server administrator to serveas storage for the backup archives. A centralized vault can be managed by a storage node (managedvault) or be unmanaged.A vault is called personal if it was created using direct connection of the console to a managedmachine. Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine.
