Backing Up To A Tape Device Through Acronis Backup Server - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - WORKSTATION User Manual

1. Select Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer management -> Removable
storage -> Media pools -> Acronis.
2. Right click on the tape in the Acronis pool, dismount the tape if it is has a status
Loaded and select Free from the context menu. The tape will be moved to the Free pool.
After putting a tape in the Free pool RSM and then Acronis will rescan it and record it to
the database with a new GUID.
A deleted archive is not necessarily deleted from the tape, it can be just marked as
deleted in the catalogue.
Saving a full backup to a new tape
You can enable saving a full backup on a new tape even if the currently mounted tape is
not full. To do so, dismount the current tape and eject it, add a new tape and move the
tape to the Free pool using RSM. Incremental or differential backups cannot be
performed in this way because access to the previous backups is required.

3.8.3 Backing up to a tape device through Acronis Backup Server

To enable backup to a tape device in the local network:
1. Install Acronis Backup Server on a computer accessible to all users.
2. Attach the tape device to that computer.
3. Move tapes from the Unrecognized or Backup pool to the Free pool using the
Removable storage snap-in (Control panel -> Administrative tools -> Computer
management -> Removable storage -> Media pools.)
4. Create local accounts on that computer for all users who will back up their data to the
autoloader. Accounts must belong to the AcronisBackupServerUsers group and be the real
accounts with which users log in Windows.
5. When creating backup tasks (if logged in Windows with the above accounts), users of
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation local version will be able to select the tape device
from the list of Backup Server locatons.
The backup server administrator can create group or individual tasks for computers to
back up their data to the tape device using Acronis True Image Management Console.
Filenames for backups are not needed when backing up to tape.
Archives, created on tape devices through Acronis Backup Server, cannot be accessed by
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation local and bootable versions and agents for
validation, data recovery and converting images to virtual disks.
When the tape is full, you must dismount it first before ejecting.
Sometimes Acronis True Image Echo Workstation cannot recognize any Acronis Tape
Plugin backups on tapes, though the archive is mounted in the RSM Import Media pool.
The reason for this is when you are trying to restore\validate an archive spanned over
two or more tapes made by earlier versions of Acronis True Image Echo (builds up to
8163) via Acronis Backup Server of the latest version. Use the Tdbrepair.exe command-
line tool to add information about such tape archives to the Backup Server database. For
more information see
Acronis tape database.
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