Want to Verify Understanding of Vault Catalogues for Restore
I have a differential backup in Personal Vault-1 from Sunday and a differential backup in Personal Vault-2 from Monday. I want to be sure my understanding of restore catalogues is correct before I do the restore. If I do a restore from Vault-1/Sunday backup, that will erase the information about the Vault-2/Monday backup in Acronis on my PC, as it happened after the image being restored was made (the vault listing in Acronis won't be erased as it has older full and differential backups).
If the Vault-1/Sunday backup doesn't help me, can I still do a restore afterwards from Vault-2/Monday backup because the catalogue for that is kept on the disk (vault), not on my PC, and is therefore accessible by Acronis Backup to do the restore of Vault-2/Monday backup?
Thanks
Thank you for confirming my underestanding of how that works. In my case, as I have earlier backups in Vault-2/Monday I can rebuild the catalog. However, had it been otherwise, had the backup in Vault-2/Monday been the only one in that vault (e.g. first time a new vault was used for a backup), I would not have been able to rebuild the cataloggue as Acronis would not have the vault in its vault list after the restore. And that backup would be lost.
Is my understanding above about rerquiring two backups in a vault in order not to lose access to that vault after a restore?
If a vault is not shown in the list\no information about this vault in the product's database due to reverting the system to an earlier point of time, you can always do the following:
- in case of Centralized Managed vault - you can simply attach it
- in case of Unmanaged, Personal vaults - you can create a new vault, move your old backup there (if you have multiple dependent backups e.g. full backup and related incremental backups - all backups in the chain should be moved to the same location, otherwise you want be able to restore from incrementals) and click Refresh to scan the vault's directory.
Note! It's always recommended to store backups on some external location. In case of system crash you'll be on a safe side having backups in different offsite places.
Thank you,
Thank you Ekaterina. I appreciate your showing me how to recover the backup vault. My Backups are always on external disks. Instead of making a new vault on the external disk and moving the backups into it, couldn't I simply Create a new vault with the same name/path as the existing one, select Refesh and not have to move the backups at all?
Yes, this will work too, just tested creating a new personal and new unmanaged vaults in the directories that already contained backups. Vaults were successfully created and after clicking on Refresh backups appeared in the UI.
Ekaterina,
Thank you so much for testing that and letting me know that it will work. I greatly appreciate your help!
You are welcome!