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Organizing a managed archive storage
What should the capacity of your centralized vault be? What if transferring sizeable backups to the
vault will cause network congestion? Does backup of an online production server affect the server
performance? To ensure that the centralized backup will not slow down business processes in your
company and to minimize the resources required for the data protection, you install Acronis Backup
& Recovery 11 Storage Node (p. 378) and configure it to manage a centralized vault or multiple
centralized vaults. Such vaults are called managed vaults (p. 376).
The storage node helps the agent deduplicate (p. 371) backups before transferring them to managed
vaults and deduplicates the backups already saved in the vaults. Deduplication results in reducing
backup traffic and saving storage space. The storage node also undertakes operations with archives
(such as validation and cleanup), which otherwise are performed by the agent, and thus relieves the
managed machines from unnecessary computing load. Last but not least, Acronis Backup & Recovery
11 Storage Node enables using a tape library as a centralized vault for storing backup archives.
More than one storage node, each managing a number of vaults, can be set up and controlled
centrally from the Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server.
For more detailed information about storage nodes please refer to the "Storage nodes" (p. 193)
section.
11.1.2 Privileges for centralized management
This section describes the users' privileges that are required to manage a machine locally and
remotely, to manage a machine registered on Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Server,
and to access and manage Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Storage Node.
11.1.2.1 Types of connection to a managed machine
There are two types of connection to a managed machine: local connection and remote connection.
Local connection
The local connection is established between Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Console on
a machine and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent on the same machine.
To establish a local connection
On the toolbar, click Connect, then point to New connection, and then click This machine.
Remote connection
A remote connection is established between Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Console on
one machine and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent on another machine.
You might need to specify logon credentials to establish a remote connection.
To establish a remote connection
1. On the toolbar, click Connect, then point to New connection, and then click Manage a remote
machine.
2. In Machine, type or select the name or IP address of the remote machine to which you want to
connect; or click Browse to select the machine from the list.
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