Vaults and stores are both created and used by the software to store data. A store is a storage location on disk targeted by local and remote protection plans. A vault is a storage location on cloud or tape storage targeted by store vaulting tasks.


Whereas a store is a container for data storage designed for random access devices, a vault is a container for longer-term data storage, designed for cloud and tape. The vault design allows for fast streaming of data to and from the cloud/tape device. It does not, however, allow for direct restoring of files.


Instead of archiving data directly to a vault, data to be archived is first deduplicated and written to a store using a Protection Plan. Then a Store Vaulting Task "copies" the data from the store to the vault. A cache drive is required for staging the data as it is being vaulted and for preparing data to be restored from a vault.


Vaults are created automatically when a store vaulting task is created. The default vault name is the store name plus " Vault" and the location for staging the data is at the root of the cache drive specified in the Configure Vaulting wizard.


See the following for more information about vaulting: