Dell PowerVault NX300 User Manual - Page 49

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. Using Your NAS System 49