About Offsite Copy; How Offsite Copy Works - Symantec GHOST - V 15.0 Manual

About Offsite Copy

How Offsite Copy works

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Click Next.
13 Click Finish to run the backup.
14 When the backup is finished, click Close to return to the main Symantec
Recovery Disk window.
Backing up your data to a secondary hard disk is a critical first step to protecting
your information assets. But to make certain your data is safe, use Offsite Copy.
This feature copies your latest, complete recovery points to either a portable
storage device, a remote server in your network, or to a remote FTP server.
Regardless of the method you use, storing copies of your recovery points at a
remote location provides a crucial level of redundancy in the event that your office
becomes inaccessible. Offsite Copy can double your data protection by ensuring
that you have a remote copy.
See "How Offsite Copy works"
See "About using external drives as your Offsite Copy destination"
See "About using a network server as your Offsite Copy destination"
See "About using an FTP server as your Offsite Copy destination"
You enable and configure Offsite Copy when you define a new drive-based backup
job. Or you can edit an existing backup job to enable Offsite Copy.
When you enable Offsite Copy, you specify up to two Offsite Copy destinations.
After the backup job finishes creating recovery points, Offsite Copy verifies that
at least one of the Offsite Copy destinations are available. Offsite Copy then begins
copying the new recovery points to the Offsite Copy destination.
The most recent recovery points are copied first, followed by the next newest
recovery points. If you have set up two Offsite Copy destinations, Offsite Copy
copies recovery points to the destination that was added first. If an Offsite Copy
destination is unavailable, Offsite Copy tries to copy recovery points to the second
destination, if it is available. If neither destination is available, then Offsite Copy
copies the recovery points the next time an Offsite Copy destination becomes
available.
For example, suppose you have configured a backup job to run at 6 p.m. and
configured an external drive as an Offsite Copy destination. However, when you
leave the office at 5:30 p.m., you take the drive with you for safe keeping. When
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