User`s guide

4.1 Personal vaults

A vault is called personal if it was created using direct connection of the console to a managed

machine. Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine. Personal vaults are visible to any

user that can log on to the system. A user's right to back up to a personal vault is defined by the

user's permission for the folder or device where the vault is located.

A personal vault can be organized on detachable or removable media. Acronis Secure Zone is

considered as a personal vault available to all users that can log on the system.

Personal vaults can be used by local backup plans or local tasks. Centralized backup plans cannot use

personal vaults except for Acronis Secure Zone.

Sharing a personal vault

Multiple machines can refer to the same physical location, say, to the same shared folder, but 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. 24).

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.

4.1.1 Working with the "Personal vault" view

This section briefly describes the main elements of the Personal vault view, and suggests the ways to

work with them.

Vault toolbar

The toolbar contains operational buttons that let you perform operations with the selected personal

vault. See the Actions on personal vaults (p. 82) section for details.

Pie chart with legend

The pie chart lets you estimate the vault's load: it shows the proportion of the vault's free space and

occupied space.

- free space: space on the storage device, where the vault is located. For example, if the vault is

located on a hard disk, the vault free space is free space of the appropriate volume.

- occupied space: total size of backup archives and their metadata, if it is located in the vault. Other

files that may be put to this folder by a user, are not counted.

The legend displays the following information about the vault:

 full path to the vault

 total number of archives and backups stored in the vault

 the ratio of the occupied space to the original data size.