Getting Started With A Tape Library - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual

Through RSM an application can get its own pools with proper names, move media from the Free
pool into its own pools, use its own pools' media for correct purpose, return media to the Free pool,
etc.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node manages the tapes belonging to the Acronis pool.
If you fill tape library slots with unused tapes, all the tapes will be included into the Free pool
automatically.
If a tape was used previously, the RSM tries to detect the registered application the tape is
concerned to. If the application is not found, the RSM will move the tape into the Unrecognized pool.
If the application is not found, but the RSM database has no information about the tape, it will be
moved into the Import pool. If the RSM database has the information, the tape moves into its own
pool of the application.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node provides the RSM to detect the tapes written by Acronis
True Image Echo, Acronis True Image 9.1 product families and by components of Acronis Backup &
Recovery 10. The storage node will locate all tapes written in "Acronis" format into the Acronis pool
at the Inventory (p. 128) operation.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 components don't use the Unrecognized pool. To utilize a tape from
this pool forcibly, move the tape to the Free pool using the Removable storage snap-in (Control
panel > Administrative tools > Computer management > Removable storage > Media pools).
If a tape has moved into the Free pool, it is considered as free and will be accessible to write by any application.
So the tape data will be lost.
If all the backups are deleted from a tape, it will not return to the Free pool. It remains in the Acronis
pool as a free tape to be reused. So if a storage node needs a new tape, it finds a free tape first in the
Acronis pool, then in the Free pool.
Thereinafter Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage Node deals only with the tapes belonging to the
Acronis pool.
4.1.3.5

Getting started with a tape library

If you have a tape library device attached to a machine with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Storage
Node installed, all you need to do to back up onto the tape library is to create an archive vault on the
device under storage node management.
Prerequisites
A tape library device has to be installed on a machine running Windows in accordance with the
device manufacturer's installation instructions.
If Removable Storage Manager (RSM) is present in your version of Windows, it must be activated.
In Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003:
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Removable Storage Manager is part of the operating system and is activated initially.
To activate Removable Storage Manager in Microsoft Windows Server 2008:
1. Click Administrative Tools > Server Manager > Features > Add Feature.
2. Select the Removable Storage Manager check box.
To activate Removable Storage Manager in Microsoft Windows Vista:
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