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24 Deploying Symantec Backup Exec 2014 with Dell PS Series Arrays | TR1057
7 Creating disk backup media
To perform a disk-to-disk backup or a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup, you must configure the backup
volumes you set up in PS Series group requirements as disk backup media.
Backup Exec allows you to backup data to a virtual disk which maps to a PS Series volume. Alternately, you
can set up a device pool, which is a group of storage devices (for example, virtual disks ) that can be used
as disk backup media.
To create disk backup media, follow these steps on the backup server:
1. Be sure the backup server meets the requirements and recommendations in sections 5.4, “Backup
server requirements,” and 5.5, “Backup client requirements.”
2. In the Backup Exec tabs, click Storage. Backup Exec should display the new volume (New virtual
disk) as a virtual disk that is available for configuration but has not yet been configured and will
display the icon with a question mark. If the New volume is not displayed, press [F5] or right-click
the screen and select refresh. Right-click the new, not-configured disk and select Configure
Virtual Disk. (Figure 10), Backup Exec will run through the process of configuring the disk. When it
is complete, the icon will change and the status will change to online.
Figure 10 New virtual disk