It is necessary to have an option to store the backed up data in multiple place. At any time you can change the backup location without worrying about the previously backed up data. If current backup location or volume is full, the backups will automatically go to next backup location i.e to next storage volume which selected. So no one has to keep monitoring the backup location of the backup server when it is almost nearing the drive capacity.
It was designed like it is enough to verify your backup server periodically but it is not necessary to monitor your backup server all the time. Whenever you see your backup server’s current location is nearing its capacity(say 80% disk full), then you can add one more volume to the storage volume. In this case if the current backup location is filled, then backup will automatically go to next volume that is selected in the storage volume.
You can also select one or more backup volumes even your current storage volume has enough storage space. You can configure Storage Volume with multiple volumes where total free space of all storage volume may be huge. In this way you don’t need to worry about backup storage space frequently since you have huge free space for future backup.
Goto ‘Management’ tab and then click on ‘ Storage Management ’ will display the screen seen below.
Add Network Drive
You can add multiple volumes on different storage media such as local disk, NAS and CIFS share. You can also add network share drive to your storage volume, to add network volume , click on the button ‘Add Network Drive’, this will take you to ‘Manage Network Drives’.
You may get an alert showing that ‘Vembu VMBackup’ windows service shouldn’t be run on local system account since network path can’t be visible to local system account. It is recommended to run Vembu VMBackup service in a particular user and make sure that user have access to the network path that you are trying to add.
After you save the network volume, this will be listed in ‘Storage Management’. If it is listed under storage management then any time you can select this volume as storage volume.
You can refer the sample value from the above the figure, you need to provide ‘Drive Name’ and ‘Drive Path’ as mandatory value and user name and password is optional. If the network drive requires username and password then it is necessary to provide the value in the respective boxes.
Drive Name: New Drive name which acts as an secondary storage point, from a secondary/remote machine.
Drive Path: The shared path of the secondary/remote machine.
User name : User name of the machine.
Password : Password of the machine.
If you network storage path is in remote location and it is an active backup location then make sure you have enough bandwidth to reach your backup location to write the backup data on the storage location. Your backup performance will be good if you have enough bandwidth to access your network storage.
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