Destinations

Important! Arcserve does not recommend configuring backup destinations (or backing up) over a VPN. Configure the backup to local storage and replicate offsite with ImageManager replication for the best results.

Backup destinations are pre-defined storage locations for backup image files. ShadowProtect supports both local and network storage as destinations. If a destination storage device changes, you only have to modify the destinations that point to that storage device, rather than edit all backup jobs which use that destination.

Note: Destinations can point to only one folder. Arcserve strongly recommends that each system have a unique folder to store its image files since mixing these files from different systems makes it almost impossible to manage. As a result, you must define a different destination for each system. However, you can use this one destination folder to save all the backup jobs from the same system. (For example, if the system has multiple volumes such as a boot volume and a data volume.)

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