Acronis Backup for PC - User Guide - Manual (Page 141)

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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.
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. 21).
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.
7.1.2.1 Actions on personal vaults
To access actions on personal vaults, click Vaults > Personal in the Navigation pane.
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. 142) 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
for accessing a vault
Click Change user.
In the appearing dialog box, provide the credentials required for accessing the vault.
Create Acronis Secure
Zone
Click Create Acronis Secure Zone.
The procedure of creating the Acronis Secure Zone is described in-depth in the
Creating Acronis Secure Zone (p. 143) section.
Explore a vault's
content
Click Explore.
In the appearing Explorer window, examine the selected vault's content.
Validate a vault
Click Validate.
You will be taken to the Validation (p. 148) page, where this vault is already
pre-selected as a source. The vault validation checks all the archives stored in the