Unitrends supports D2D2T archiving to tape from select Unitrends appliances. For supported Recovery-Series systems, see these Unitrends Appliance Family Data Sheets:
• Recovery-Series Rackmount Appliance Family Data Sheet
• Recovery-Series Desktop Appliance Family Data Sheet
For UEB systems, the tape device must be SCSI and the UEB VM must be running on ESX(i) 4.1, due to limitations in VMware. Tape archiving is not supported on UEB on Hyper-V systems.
The following requirements must be met before setting up tape archiving on these systems:
Unitrends System |
Requirement |
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General requirements |
These requirements must be met on both Recovery-Series and UEB on VMware systems: • The appliance must be licensed with the advanced archiving (ADX) feature. Check for ADX in the license string under Settings > System, Updates, and Licensing > License. • The tape device must be configured as described in this document. Configuring the tape archive device in the Unitrends system. • The tape or set of tapes must have adequate space to store the data being archived. If the archive does not fit, the job fails. • If using tape barcodes, your tape device must have a barcode reader and tapes must have valid barcode labels. |
Recovery-Series systems only |
The tape device must be either SCSI, SAS, or Fibre Channel. |
UEB on VMware systems only |
These additional requirements must be met for UEB on VMware systems: • The tape device must be SCSI. • The UEB virtual machine must be running on ESX(i) version 4.1, due to limitations in VMware. |