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5.5.1 Creating a centralized vault
In this step, you will create an unmanaged centralized vault to back up the machines to. An
unmanaged vault is just a shortcut to a shared folder on the network. In general, it is recommended
that you install a storage node and create a managed vault on the node to be able to use the benefit
of deduplication.
1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. In the Navigation tree, click Vaults, and then click Create.
3. Specify the name of the new vault. Optionally, type the comments on the vault.
4. Click Path. In the Path field, type the folder path. Or, you can select this folder in the tree. Click
OK to confirm your selection. If prompted, provide access credentials for the location.
5. Click OK to create the vault.
5.5.2 Backing up several machines
In this step, you will create and run a centralized backup plan to back up several machines registered
on the management server.
1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. Click Create backup plan.
3. Under What to back up, click Items to back up.
4. Expand the Management Server node, expand the Machines with agents node, and then expand
the All Machines node.
5. Select the check boxes next to the machines you want to back up. Click OK to confirm your
selection.
6. Under Where to back up, click Location. Expand the Centralized node, and then select the vault
you have created. Click OK to confirm your selection. If prompted, provide access credentials for
the vault.
Details. The Name field contains the default archive name [Machine_Name]_Archive(1).
7. Under How to back up, in Backup scheme select Manual start.
8. Click OK to save the backup plan.
9. You will be taken to the Backup plans and tasks view, where you can see the backup plan you
just created. Select this plan and click Run.
Details. Later, you can manually run the same backup plan again.
5.5.3 Backing up user profiles on several machines. Replication of
backups
In this step, you will create a centralized backup plan to do daily backups of all user profiles on several
machines. Backups of each machine will be placed in a local folder on that machine. Every backup will
be replicated to the networked vault. Backups stored in the local folders will be deleted after 30 days.
Backups stored in the vault will be deleted after 6 months.
1. Ensure that each machine you want to back up contains the folder to place the backups in. Folder
paths must be identical on all of the machines.
2. Connect the console to the management server.
3. Click Create backup plan.
4. Select what to back up:
