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Create Shared Folders for Disaster Recovery Alternate Locations

You can create shared folders to replicate disaster recovery information in alternate locations.

To create the shared folder

1. Create a folder and give it an appropriate name.

   You can create this folder anywhere on the system where shared folders are allowed.

   Note: The volume must be located on a fixed disk.

2. Right-click the folder and select Properties from the pop-up menu.

   The Properties dialog opens.

3. Click the Sharing tab.
4. Select the Share this folder option and enter the share name.
5. Set the User limit you require and click Permissions.

   The Permission dialog opens.

   Note: We recommend that you specify the Maximum Allowed option.

6. Click Add to add the user account you used when you set up your alternate location for disaster recovery information to the Share Permissions list.

   You can add this account explicitly or you can specify a user group to which the account belongs (this information also applies if you add a domain account):

   Add Account Explicitly

   If the user account exists on the machine and is part of a local user group, you can add that specific user account to add it explicitly.

   Add User Account Implicitly

   If the user account exists on the machine and is part of a local user group, you can add the entire local user group to add the user account implicitly.

7. Click the boxes in the Allow column to specify Full Control on the share folder.
8. Click Apply, and then click OK.
9. In the Properties dialog, click the Security tab.

   Edit the security list on this tab to ensure the user account used during the setup of the alternate location has Full Control on permissions. The user account can be added explicitly or implicitly (as part of a user group) as described in the previous steps.

10. Click Apply and click OK.
11. Verify that the shared folder works properly. To do so, from a remote computer, try to connect or map to the shared folder with the user account you used when setting up the alternate location and, when connected, verify that you can create, modify, and remove files and directories on the shared folder.