Choosing A Storage Location - Dell PowerVault NX3100 Administrator's Manual

Choosing a Storage Location

To store the backups that you create, you need to specify a location.
Depending on the type of storage you specify, you should be aware of the
following issues.
Storage Type
Shared folder
DVD, other optical media, or
removable media
Local hard disk
Details
If you store your backup in a remote shared folder,
your backup is overwritten each time you create a
new backup. Do not choose this option if you
want to store a series of backups.
If the backup process fails while you are trying to
create a backup to a shared folder that already
contains a backup, you might be left without any
backups. To work around this, you can create
subfolders in the shared folder to store your
backups.
If you store your backup on optical or removable
media, you can only recover entire volumes, not
applications or individual files. In addition,
backing up to media that has less than 1 GB of
free space is not supported.
If you store your backup on an internal hard disk,
you can:
• Recover files, folders, applications, and volumes.
• Perform system state and operating system
recoveries if the backup used contains all the
critical volumes.
However, you cannot perform an operating
system recovery if the backup is on the same
physical disk as one or more critical volumes.
Also, the local disk you choose is dedicated for
storing your scheduled backups and is not visible
in Windows Explorer.
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