User guide

Fast inventorying

If the parameter value is fast or is not specified, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 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

If the parameter value is full, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 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.

Combination of fast and full inventorying

Full inventorying of an entire tape device may take a long time. If you need to inventory only a few

tapes, combine fast and full inventorying. Step-by-step instructions are provided in "Operations with

tapes" (p. 135).

3.11.4 slots

--slots=<GUIDs>

GUIDs of tape library slots to be inventoried. The parameter is used with the inventory tape (p.

60) command only if the --libraries (p. 114) parameter contains the GUID of one library.

If the parameter is not specified, all of the tape library slots will be inventoried. To learn GUIDs of

tape library slots, use the list tape_slots (p. 59) command.

3.12 General parameters

3.12.1 credentials

--credentials=<user name>,<password>,encrypted

Credentials to access a machine, a backup location, or a folder. The parameter must directly follow

the object for which credentials are required (for example, --host, --loc, --target).

To access Acronis Secure Zone, specify only the password in this parameter.

To access a network share that does not require credentials, specify --credentials=anonymous.

If the third parameter value (encrypted) is specified, it means that the preceding password was

encrypted by the acronis_encrypt utility (p. 141).

A command can contain several --credentials parameters.

Example