Acronis Backup for PC - User Guide - Manual (Page 139)

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7 Storing the backed up data
7.1 Vaults
A vault is a location for storing backup archives. For ease of use and administration, a vault is
associated with the archives' metadata. Referring to this metadata makes for fast and convenient
operations with archives and backups stored in the vault.
A vault can be organized on a local or networked drive or detachable media.
There are no settings for limiting a vault size or number of backups in a vault. You can limit the size of
each archive using cleanup, but the total size of archives stored in the vault is limited by the storage
size only.
Why create vaults?
We recommend that you create a vault in each destination where you are going to store backup
archives. This will ease your work as follows.
Quick access to the vault
You will not have to remember paths to the folders where the archives are stored. When creating a
backup plan or a task that requires selection of an archive or an archive destination place, the list of
vaults will be available for quick access without drilling down through the folders tree.
Easy archive management
A vault is available for access from the Navigation pane. Having selected the vault, you can browse
the archives stored there and perform the following archive management operations:
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Get a list of backups included in each archive
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Recover data from a backup
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Examine backup content
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Validate all archives in the vault or individual archives or backups
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Mount a volume backup to copy files from the backup to a physical disk
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Safely delete archives and backups from the archives.
Creating vaults is highly recommended but is not obligatory. You may choose not to use the shortcuts
and always specify the location path.
Creating a vault results in adding the vault name to the Vaults section of the Navigation pane.
'Vaults' view
Vaults (on the navigation pane) - top item of the vaults tree. Click this item to display personal
vaults. To perform actions on any vault, use the toolbar that is located at the top of the Vaults view.
See the Actions on personal vaults (p. 141) section.
Personal vaults. These vaults are available when the console is connected to a managed
machine. Click any vault in the vaults tree to open the detailed view of this vault (p. 140) and to
take actions on archives (p. 159) and backups (p. 159) stored in there.