Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 186)

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7.1.3 Personal vaults
A vault is called personal if it was created using direct connection of the console to a managed
machine. Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine. Personal vaults are visible to any
user that can log on to the system. A user's right to back up to a personal vault is defined by the
user's permission for the folder or device where the vault is located.
A personal vault can be organized on a network share, FTP server, detachable or removable media,
Acronis Cloud Storage, tape device, or on a hard drive local to the machine. Acronis Secure Zone is
considered as a personal vault available to all users that can log on the system. Personal vaults are
created automatically when backing up any of the above locations.
Personal vaults can be used by local backup plans or local tasks. Centralized backup plans cannot use
personal vaults except for Acronis Secure Zone.
Sharing a personal vault
Multiple machines can refer to the same physical location; for example, to the same shared folder.
However, each of the machines has its own shortcut in the Vaults tree. Users that back up to a
shared folder can see and manage each other's archives according to their access permissions for
that folder. To ease archive identification, the Personal vault view has the Owner column that
displays the owner of each archive. To find out more about the owner concept see Owners and
credentials (p. 33).
Metadata
The .meta folder is created during backup in every personal vault. This folder contains additional
information about archives and backups stored in the vault, such as archive owners or the machine
name. If you accidentally delete the .meta folder, it will be automatically recreated next time you
access the vault. But some information, like owner names and machine names, may be lost.
7.1.3.1 Actions on personal vaults
To access actions
1. Connect the console to the managed machine.
2. In the Navigation pane, click Vaults > Personal.
All the operations described here are performed by clicking the corresponding buttons on the vaults
toolbar. These operations can be also accessed from the [Vault name] actions item of the main
menu.
The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with personal vaults.
To Do
Create a personal vault Click
Create.
The procedure of creating personal vaults is described in-depth in the Creating a
personal vault (p. 187) section.
Edit a vault 1. Select the vault.
2. Click Edit.
The Edit personal vault page lets you edit the vault's name and information in the
Comments field.
Change user account
Click Change user.