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Naming Convention of Physical Disks and Volumes

After you enable raw backup and restore, you can view the physical disks and volumes that are connected to the agent in the Backup Manager under the Source tab. The following illustration shows a section of the Source tab that has displayed the physical volumes:

PhysicalDisk_<Disk id>:

Indicates a physical disk. <Disk id> represents the identification tag of the disk. Arcserve Backup and Windows Disk Management display the <Disk id> in the same way.

PhysicalVolume_<Disk id>_<Volume id>

Indicates a physical volume. <Volume id> is a drive letter or the GUID. The GUID is a hexadecimal number that displays only when the volume is an unnamed volume (no drive letter association). For example, PhysicalVolume_Disk 2_E: means that the volume E: resides on Disk 2.