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How You Can Archive Data on the NAS Server

You can use the NDMP NAS Option to archive the data on the NAS server to its locally attached tape device, to another NAS server with an attached tape device, or to any device attached on the Arcserve Backup server. If the data on the NAS server needs to be backed up to the device on the Arcserve Backup server, you can use the NAS filer to server job or the Preferred Shares to back up the NAS sever.

Note: To allow Arcserve Backup to connect to Network Appliance servers through Preferred Shares, you must create an ADMIN$ share for the volume containing the /ETC folder on the NAS server. Additionally, you should not back up NAS devices through Preferred Shares, as it does not utilize the NAS-attached backup device or the NDMP protocol for proper NAS operating system backup procedures.

Arcserve Backup supports archiving and restoring data from a NAS server to its locally attached tape device and to a tape device attached to another NAS server. However, for non-NAS servers, you can archive data from the server to the tape device connected to the NAS server only if the backup device is shared.

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