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Backup to a locally attached tape device

When creating a backup plan, you are able to select the locally attached tape device as the backup

destination. An archive name is not needed when backing up to a tape.

An archive can span multiple tapes but can contain only one full backup and an unlimited number of

incremental backups. Every time you create a full backup, you start with a new tape and create a

new archive. As soon as the tape is full, a dialog window with a request to insert a new tape will

appear.

The content of a non-empty tape will be overwritten on prompt. You have an option to disable

prompts, see Additional settings (p. 117).

Workaround

In case you want to keep more than one archive on the tape, for example, back up volume C and

volume D separately, choose incremental backup mode instead of a full backup when you create

an initial backup of the second volume. In other situations, incremental backup is used for

appending changes to the previously created archive.

You might experience short pauses that are required to rewind the tape. Low-quality or old tape, as

well as dirt on the magnetic head, might lead to pauses that can last up to several minutes.

Limitations

1. Multiple full backups within one archive are not supported.

2. Individual files cannot be recovered from a disk backup.

3. Backups cannot be deleted from a tape either manually or automatically during cleanup.

Retention rules and backup schemes that use automatic cleanup (GFS, Tower of Hanoi) are

disabled in the GUI when backing up to a locally attached tape.

4. Personal vaults cannot be created on tape devices.

5. Because the presence of an operating system cannot be detected in a backup located on a tape,

Acronis Universal Restore (p. 378) is proposed at every disk or volume recovery, even when

recovering a Linux or non-system Windows volume.

6. Acronis Active Restore (p. 366) is not available when recovering from a tape.

Recovery from a locally attached tape device

Before creating a recovery task, insert or mount the tape containing the backup you need to recover.

When creating a recovery task, select the tape device from the list of available locations and then

select the backup. After recovery is started, you will be prompted for other tapes if the tapes are

needed for recovery.

2.13 Proprietary Acronis technologies

This section describes the proprietary technologies inherited by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 from

Acronis True Image Echo and Acronis True Image 9.1 product families.

2.13.1 Acronis Secure Zone

Acronis Secure Zone is a secure partition that enables keeping backup archives on a managed

machine disk space and therefore recovery of a disk to the same disk where the backup resides.

Certain Windows applications, such as Acronis disk management tools, can access the zone.

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