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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.
207) 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. 204) or to create a new pool
(p. 205).
4. If the chosen pool is not replenishable (p. 444), move all of the loaded tapes from the Free tapes
pool to it.
5. Create a personal vault (p. 212) and associate your pool with it.
6. When creating a backup plan (p. 51):
 Specify a local folder as the backup destination.
 Set up the required backup scheme.
 Select the Replicate newly created backup to another location check box, click 2nd location,
and select the created vault in the tree.
 Click Backup options, click Tape management (p. 121) in the tree, and select the Eject tapes
after successful backups check box.
7. After each backup is created and the tapes with it are ejected, 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 the local folder and to tapes. Tapes with each backups will be sent
to the off-site storage.
7.4.6.4 Example 4. GFS. Sending full backups to an off-site storage
Consider the following scenario:
 You want to back up a machine to a tape device attached to a storage node.
 You want to use the Grandfather-Father-Son backup scheme (p. 62).
 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. 210) 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.
207) 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. 204) or to create a new pool
(p. 205).
4. If the chosen pool is not replenishable (p. 444), move all of the loaded tapes from the Free tapes
pool to it.
5. Create a managed vault (p. 179). When creating the vault:
 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.
 In Tape pool, select the pool where you will back up to (the Acronis pool or the newly
created one).