Operation Manual

6. When creating a backup plan (p. 51):

 Choose the created vault as the backup destination.

 Select the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup scheme.

 Specify the rules to keep daily backups for 7 days, weekly ones for 4 weeks and monthly ones

indefinitely.

 Click Show backup type, validation..., and then select Full/incremental/differential in

Backup type.

 Click Backup options, click Tape management (p. 121) in the tree, and select For each full

backup under Always use a free tape.

7. After a full backup is created, you can eject the tapes with it and 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 tapes according to the specified backup scheme. Tapes with full

backups will be sent to a secure off-site storage.

7.5 Storage nodes

The following sections describe how to use Acronis Backup Storage Node.

Storage nodes are available only in Acronis Backup Advanced.

7.5.1 What is a storage node?

Acronis Backup Storage Node is a server designed to optimize the usage of various resources (such as

the corporate storage capacity, the network bandwidth, or the managed machines' CPU load) which

are required to protect enterprise data. This goal is achieved by organizing and managing the

locations that serve as dedicated storages of the enterprise backup archives (managed vaults).

The most important function of a storage node is deduplication of backups stored in its vaults. This

means that identical data will be backed up to this vault only once. This minimizes the network usage

during backup and storage space taken by the archives.

Up to 50 storage nodes can be set up.

7.5.2 Supported types of storage

A managed vault can be organized:

 On the hard drives local to the storage node

 On a network share

 On a Storage Area Network (SAN)

 On a Network Attached Storage (NAS)

 On a tape library (p. 194) locally attached to the storage node.

7.5.3 Operations performed by storage nodes

Storage nodes can perform the following operations on archives stored in managed vaults.