Tape Support; Tape Compatibility Table - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR WINDOWS - UPDATE 3 User Manual

Unallocated space (basic GPT disk)
Moving and resizing volumes during recovery
You can resize the resulting basic volume, both MBR and GPT, during recovery, or change the
volume's location on the disk. A resulting dynamic volume cannot be moved or resized.
Preparing disk groups and volumes
Before recovering dynamic volumes to bare metal you should create a disk group on the target
hardware.
You also might need to create or increase unallocated space on an existing disk group. This can be
done by deleting volumes or converting basic disks to dynamic.
You might want to change the target volume type (basic, simple/spanned, striped, mirrored, RAID
0+1, RAID 5). This can be done by deleting the target volume and creating a new volume on the
resulting unallocated space.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 includes a handy disk management utility which enables you to
perform the above operations both under the operating system and on bare metal. To find out more
about Acronis Disk Director Lite, see the Disk management (p. 193) section.

2.9 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. Storage nodes ensure fully automatic operation of tape
libraries and autoloaders.
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.
2.9.1

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
36
Basic GPT volume Basic GPT volume
...is readable on a tape device attached to a machine
ABR10
Bootable
Media
ATIE 9.1 +
ATIE 9.5 +
ATIE 9.7 +
ABR10 +
Basic GPT volume
with...
ABR10 ABR10
Agent for Agent for
Windows Linux
+ +
+ +
+ +
+ +
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ABR10
Storage
Node
+
+
+
+