Connecting a Unitrends physical appliance to the disk archiving unit

The disk archiving unit has four eSATA ports that correspond to the four archive drive slots. To connect to the Unitrends physical appliance, the unit may be attached to a single backup system or to multiple systems simultaneously. This configuration allows archiving to occur from one or more systems.

The disk archiving unit is attached to a backup system using an eSATA cable. If your backup appliance has a multi-port NIC(s), you can attach more than one archive drive to that appliance using multiple eSATA cables. Note that if you attach multiple drives to one Unitrends appliance, the backup system treats all attached archive drives as one logical volume, writing data across the entire set.