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Acronis 10 and tape backup

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Hello

i try the last version (oct) of acronis 10.

I still use tape to backup serveur, i use actually the 9.1 with the 2000 server, and 9.5 for 2003 server.

I made some test with the version 10 but i have some issue.

i don't understand, why i have choice to backup all partition or all files. So when i backup all partition on tape drive, i can't restore some files, just all partition, or just files if i select backupup only files
it's not great....

the advantage of acronis in compare of backup exec, is that acronis can save all partitions.
the advantage of acronis in compare of BESR is that acronis can use tape drive.

Could you explain the choice to divide this feature, and how can i make some backup plan on tape, to make full backup each day, and to be able to restore a server completly, or just restore some files, with one backup on tape

thank you

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Hello Cyril,

Thank you for using [[http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/ | Acronis Corporate Products]]

You can create a partition backup or files/folders backup and place the archive to tape drive. If you create a partition backup, you can restore the entire partition only. If the partition contains an  operation system, the system will be bootable after the recovery. If you backup files & folders, you can restore the files & folders only.

Restore of files/folders from a disk/partition archive stored on Tape cannot be performed. This is the limitation in support of the tape drives. You are unable to unify these two possibilities using the tape drives.

You can restore files/folders from a disk/partition archive or restore the entire partition if you use another than tape drive storage (for example, a hard drive).

Thank you.

Hello Oleg

I'm a little disappointed to not to have the capacity to backup OS+data on a same media (cartridge) with the new version 10

I will still use 9.5 version of ATIE, and i couldn't update to the 10's version.

When the .10 would have this feature, i could migrate and use new good features, like double destination and deduplication.

Is there any news about the capacity to function with tape drive into the 10 version, it was possible into previous version (9.1/9.5)

thanks

Hello Cyril COHU,

Thank you for posting. I will be happy to answer your question.

At the moment we cannot provide you with a definite answer about this feature being implemented in a future release of Acronis Backup and Recovery 10. However, I can recommend to subscribe to our Acronis newsletter so that you can always receive notifications about our releases and their capabilities.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Hello Cyril COHU,

Thank you very much for getting back to us.

At the moment we do not have any information regarding this feature, I am very sorry for the inconvenience.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thank you.