Storage node properties

The Storage node properties window accumulates in four tabs all information on the selected Acronis Backup Storage Node. This information is also duplicated on the Information panel.

Storage node properties

This tab displays the following information about the selected storage node:

• Name - the name of the machine where the storage node is installed.
• Availability:
  • Unknown - this status is displayed until the first connection between the management server and the storage node is established after adding the storage node or starting the management server's service.
  • Online - the storage node is available for the management server. This means that the last management server's connection to the node was successful. Connection is established every 2 minutes.
  • Offline - the storage node is unavailable.
  • Withdrawn - the storage node was registered on another management server. As a result, it is not possible to control the node from the current management server.
• IP - the IP address of the machine where the storage node is installed.
• Archives - the total number of archives stored in all the vaults managed by the storage node.
• Backups - the total number of backups stored within the archives in all the vaults managed by the storage node.
• Indexing - the indexing activity deduplicates the data saved to the deduplicating vault during a backup. Indexing always runs after a backup is completed. To learn more about indexing, see "How deduplication works".
  • Idle - indexing is not running. You can start the indexing by clicking the Run indexing link.
  • Running - indexing is running. You can stop the indexing by clicking the Stop link. Since indexing is a resource-consuming operation, you may want to stop it in order to allocate more resources to other processes which are more important at the moment. We recommend you to stop the indexing only if you absolutely need to, and to re-run the indexing as soon as possible. The longer you delay the indexing, the more data will not be deduplicated in the vault and the more disk space will be occupied.
• Compacting - the compacting task deletes from the deduplication data store the blocks which are no longer referred to. To learn more about compacting, see the "How deduplication works" section.
  • Idle - compacting is not running. You can start the compacting by clicking the Run compacting link.
  • Running - compacting is running. You can stop the compacting by clicking the Stop link.
• Compacting schedule - the compacting task scheduling parameters. Click the Compacting schedule link to re-schedule the compacting task. Only the time events (daily, weekly, and monthly schedules) are available for setting up. The preset is: Start the task every 1 week on Sunday at 03:00:00 AM.

Statistics

This tab provides you with information about the original and backed data sizes on all the managed vaults of the selected storage node.

Vaults

This tab displays a list of vaults managed by the selected storage node. To update the list of vaults with the most recent information from the management server, click Refresh.

Indexing

This tab lets you examine the current status of indexing for the deduplicating vaults of the storage node and review the date and time of the last run.