Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 81Click any personal vault in the vaults tree to open the detailed view of this vault (p. 81) and totake actions on the vault (p. 82), archives (p. 84) and backups (p. 85) stored in there.4.1. Personal vaultsA vault is called personal if it was created using direct connection of the console to a managedmachine. Personal vaults are specific for each managed machine. Personal vaults are visible to anyuser that can log on to the system. A user's right to back up to a personal vault is defined by theuser's permission for the folder or device where the vault is located.A personal vault can be organized on detachable or removable media. Acronis Secure Zone isconsidered as a personal vault available to all users that can log on the system.Personal vaults can be used by local backup plans or local tasks. Centralized backup plans cannot usepersonal vaults except for Acronis Secure Zone.Sharing a personal vaultMultiple machines can refer to the same physical location, say, to the same shared folder, but each ofthe machines has its own shortcut in the Vaults tree. Users that back up to a shared folder can seeand manage each other's archives according to their access permissions for that folder. To easearchive identification, the Personal vault view has the Owner column that displays the owner of eacharchive. To find out more about the owner concept see Owners and credentials (p. 23).MetadataThe .meta folder is created during backup in every personal vault. This folder contains additionalinformation about archives and backups stored in the vault, such as archive owners or the machinename. If you accidentally delete the .meta folder, it will be automatically recreated next time youaccess the vault. But some information like owner names and machine names may be lost.4.1.1. Working with the "Personal vault" viewThis section briefly describes the main elements of the Personal vault view, and suggests the ways towork with them.Vault toolbarThe toolbar contains operational buttons that let you perform operations with the selected personalvault. See the Actions on personal vaults (p. 82) section for details.Pie chart with legendThe pie chart lets you estimate the vault's load: it shows the proportion of the vault's free space andoccupied space.- free space: space on the storage device, where the vault is located. For example, if the vault islocated on a hard disk, the vault free space is free space of the appropriate volume.- occupied space: total size of backup archives and their metadata, if it is located in the vault. Otherfiles that may be put to this folder by a user, are not counted.
