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Choosing A Storage Location

To store the backups that you create, you need to specify a location. Depending on the type of storage

you specify, you should be aware of the following issues.

Storage Type Details

Shared Folder

If you store your backup in a remote shared folder, your backup is

overwritten each time you create a new backup. Do not choose this option

if you want to store a series of backups.

If the backup process fails while you are trying to create a backup to a

shared folder that already contains a backup, you might be left without any

backups. To work around this, you can create subfolders in the shared folder

to store your backups.

DVD, other optical media,

or removable media

If you store your backup on optical or removable media, you can only

recover entire volumes, not applications or individual files. In addition,

backing up to media that has less than 1 GB of free space is not supported.

Local hard disk

If you store your backup on an internal hard disk, you can:

• Recover files, folders, applications, and volumes.

• Perform system state and operating system recoveries if the backup used

contains all the critical volumes.

However, you cannot perform an operating system recovery if the backup is

on the same physical disk as one or more critical volumes.

Also, the local disk you choose is dedicated for storing your scheduled

backups and is not visible in Windows Explorer.

External hard disk

If you store your backup on an external hard disk, you can:

• Recover files, folders, applications, and volumes.

• Perform system state and operating system recoveries if the backup used

contains all the critical volumes.

• Easily move backups offsite for disaster protection.

If you store your scheduled backups on an external hard disk, the disk is

dedicated for storing your backups and is not visible in Windows Explorer.

This enables users to move disks offsite for disaster protection and ensure

backup integrity.

NIC Teaming

NIC teaming, also known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO) is a built-in feature of Windows Storage

Server 2012 R2 that allows fault tolerance for your network adapters. NIC teaming allows multiple

network adapters to work together as a team, preventing connectivity loss if one NIC fails.

The advantage of built-in NIC teaming is that it works with all NICs and provides a set of management

tools for all adapters. The outbound traffic can be distributed among the available network adapters by

using Switch-independent mode and Switch-dependent mode for network traffic distribution.

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