Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 214)

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You want to back up a machine to a tape device attached to a storage node.
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You want to use the Grandfather-Father-Son backup scheme (p. 65).
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You want to create full, incremental and differential backups. Each full backup should be written
to a separate tape in order to send tapes with full backups to a secure off-site storage.
Sequence of actions
1. Load tapes into the tape device slots.
2. Perform the fast inventorying (p. 208) with the Move newly detected tapes from the
'Unrecognized tapes' or 'Imported tapes' pools to the 'Free tapes' pool check box selected.
Result. The loaded tapes are in the Free tapes pool. If some of them are sent to the Acronis pool
or a custom pool, this means the tapes contain backups you did earlier on this machine. Move (p.
205) such tapes to the Free tapes pool manually if you don't need these backups.
3. Decide whether you want to back up to the default Acronis pool (p. 203) or to create a new pool
(p. 204).
4. If the chosen pool is not replenishable (p. 440), move all of the loaded tapes from the Free tapes
pool to it.
5. Create a managed vault (p. 179). When creating the vault:
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In Drives, select the entire tape device. This will enable simultaneous backup of the machines
via different drives, if your tape device has more than one drive.
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In Tape pool, select the pool where you will back up to (the Acronis pool or the newly
created one).
6. When creating a backup plan (p. 54):
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Choose the created vault as the backup destination.
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Select the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup scheme.
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Specify the rules to keep daily backups for 7 days, weekly ones for 4 weeks and monthly ones
indefinitely.
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Click Show backup type, validation..., and then select Full/incremental/differential in
Backup type.
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Click Backup options, click Tape management (p. 124) in the tree, and select For each full
backup under Always use a free tape.
7. After a full backup is created, you can eject the tapes with it and send them to a secure off-site
storage. If you do not have enough free tapes to continue backups, load new tapes and perform
steps 2 and 4.
Result
The machine will be backed up to tapes according to the specified backup scheme. Tapes with full
backups will be sent to a secure off-site storage.
7.5 Storage nodes
The following sections describe how to use Acronis Backup Storage Node.
Storage nodes are available only in Acronis Backup Advanced.
7.5.1 What is a storage node?
Acronis Backup Storage Node is a server designed to optimize the usage of various resources (such as
the corporate storage capacity, the network bandwidth, or the managed machines' CPU load) which