Operation Manual

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Result. The selected tapes are moved to the pool associated with the selected vault. The backups
stored on the tapes can be found in this vault. A backup spread over several tapes will not appear in
the vault until all of these tapes are rescanned.
Inventorying
The inventorying operation detects tapes loaded into a tape device and assigns names to those that
have none. Perform the operation every time you load tapes into the tape device slots.
Inventorying methods
Acronis Backup provides the following two methods of inventorying.
Fast inventorying
Acronis Backup scans tapes for barcodes. Using barcodes, the software can quickly return a tape to
the pool where it was before.
Select this method to recognize tapes used by the same tape device attached to the same machine.
Other tapes will be sent to the Unrecognized tapes pool.
If your tape library contains no barcode reader, all tapes will be sent to the Unrecognized tapes pool.
To recognize your tapes, perform full inventorying or combine fast and full inventorying as described
later in this section.
Full inventorying
Acronis Backup reads tags written by Acronis software and analyzes other information about the
contents of the loaded tapes. Select this method to recognize empty tapes and tapes written by
Acronis software on any tape device and any machine.
The following table shows pools to which tapes are sent as a result of the full inventorying.
Tape was used by...
Tape is read by...
Tape is sent to pool...
Agent
the same Agent
where the tape was before
another Agent
Imported tapes
Storage Node
Imported tapes
Storage Node
the same Storage Node
where the tape was before
another Storage Node
Imported tapes
Agent
Imported tapes
third-party backup application
Agent or Storage Node
Unrecognized tapes
Tapes of certain types are sent to specific pools:
Tape type
Tape is sent to pool...
Empty tape
Free tapes
Empty write-protected tape
Unrecognized tapes
Cleaning tape
Unrecognized tapes
The fast inventorying can be applied to entire tape devices. The full inventorying can be applied to
entire tape devices, individual drives, or slots.
Combination of fast and full inventorying