Adding & Managing Network Drive

This section provides information on adding and managing network drives as a storage repository in the BDRSuite Backup Server.

Add Network Drives

Add Network Drives (NAS, SAN) as storage volumes to create a Block Storage Repository. Follow the steps below to mount your network drives as storage volumes.

Step 1: On the Create New Block Storage Repository page, click on Add Network Drive as Storage Volume button.

Step 2 : In the Add Network Drive page, Read the given instructions and enable the checkbox “I understand that if the above recommendations are not addressed, it can result in serious data loss”, to proceed.

Step 3: Provide the ‘Drive Path’ – Network path of the drive to be added. Ex: \\[server]\[sharename]\.

Step 4 : Provide a drive letter/name for the network drive in the ‘Display Drive Name’ section. Ex: G.

Step 5 : If the network drive requires login authentication provide the Username and Password to authenticate drive addition. [Optional]

Step 6 : Click ‘Save’ to add the network drive as a storage volume.

Step 7 : The added network drive will be listed as a storage volume in the ‘Create New Block Storage Repository’ page and can be used while creating the backup repository.

Manage Network Drives

This option helps to add, edit, delete network drives which will be listed along with a separate drive letter. You can add ‘n’ number of network drives and manage it via the Manage Network Drives page.

• In the Backup Repository Configuration – Block Storage page click on the Manage Network Drive button.
• You get to add a network drive as storage volume directly by clicking on the ‘Add Network Drive as Storage Volume’ button.
• Under the ‘Action’ section you can click on the ‘Edit’ option to change the Username and Password of the Network volume, and you can also delete an added network drive by clicking on the ‘Delete’ option.

Click here to see an example of adding data domain as a Backup Repository.