Tape Support; Tape Compatibility Table; Using A Single Tape Drive - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ADVANCED SERVER - UPDATE 3 User Manual

2.11 Tape support

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 supports tape libraries, autoloaders, SCSI and USB tape drives as
storage devices. A tape device can be locally attached to a managed machine (in this case, the
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent writes and reads the tapes) or accessed through the Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node (p. 21). Storage nodes ensure fully automatic operation of tape
libraries and autoloaders (p. 138).
Backup archives created using different ways of access to tape have different formats. A tape written
by a storage node cannot be read by an agent.
Linux-based and PE-based bootable media allow for backup and recovery using both local access and
access through the storage node. Backups created using the bootable media can be recovered with
the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent running in the operating system.

2.11.1 Tape compatibility table

The following table summarizes the readability of tapes written by Acronis True Image Echo and
Acronis True Image 9.1 product families in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. The table also illustrates
the compatibility of tapes written by various components of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
Bootable Media
Tape written on
a locally
attached tape
device (tape
drive or tape Agent for
library) by... Windows
Agent for Linux
Backup Server
Tape written on
a tape device
through...
Storage Node

2.11.2 Using a single tape drive

A tape drive that is locally attached to a managed machine can be used by local backup plans as a
storage device. The functionality of a locally attached autoloader or tape library is limited to the
ordinary tape drive. This means that the program can only work with the currently mounted tape and
you have to mount tapes manually.
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...is readable on a tape device attached to a machine
ABR10
Bootable
Media
ATIE 9.1 +
ATIE 9.5 +
ATIE 9.7 +
ABR10 +
ATIE 9.1 +
ATIE 9.5 -
ATIE 9.7 -
ABR10 +
ATIE 9.1 +
ATIE 9.5 +
ATIE 9.7 +
ABR10 +
ATIE 9.1 +
ATIE 9.5 -
ATIE 9.7 -
ABR10 -
with...
ABR10 ABR10
Agent for Agent for
Windows Linux
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