ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual page 226

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a single backup - an archive consisting of a single full backup will be created. The export of an
incremental or a differential backup is performed using consolidation of the preceding backups
up to the nearest full backup
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your choice of backups belonging to the same archive - the resulting archive will contain only the
specified backups. Consolidation is performed as required, so the resulting archive may contain
full, incremental and differential backups.
 an entire vault that can be exported by using the command line interface. For more information,
please refer to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Command Line Reference.
Usage scenarios
Export enables you to separate a specific backup from a chain of incremental backups for fast
recovery, writing onto removable or detachable media or other purposes.
By exporting a managed vault to a detachable media, you obtain a portable unmanaged vault that
can be used in the following scenarios:
 keeping an off-site copy of your vault or of the most important archives
 physical transportation of a vault to a distant branch office
 recovery without access to the storage node in case of networking problems or failure of the
storage node
 recovery of the storage node itself.
Export from an HDD-based vault to a tape device can be considered as simple on-demand archive
staging.
The resulting archive's name
By default, the exported archive inherits the name of the original archive. Because having multiple
archives of the same names in the same location is not advisable, the following actions are disabled
with the default archive name:
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exporting part of an archive to the same location
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exporting an archive or part of an archive to a location where an archive of the same name exists
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exporting an archive or part of an archive to the same location twice
In any of the above cases, provide an archive name that is unique to the destination folder or vault. If
you need to redo the export using the same archive name, first delete the archive that resulted from
the previous export operation.
The resulting archive's options
The exported archive inherits the options of the original archive, including encryption and the
password. When exporting a password-protected archive, you are prompted for the password. If the
original archive is encrypted, the password is used to encrypt the resulting archive.
Source and destination locations
When the console is connected to a managed machine, you can export an archive or part of an
archive to and from any location accessible to the agent residing on the machine. These include
personal vaults, locally attached tape devices, removable media and, in the advanced product
versions, managed and unmanaged centralized vaults.
When the console is connected to a management server, two export methods are available:
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