Hardware destinations supported
Below is a list of media and hardware destinations supported by BackupAssist:
BackupAssist supports a wide variety of media types and hardware destinations. The hardware destinations available when creating a job depend on the backup type that was selected during the previous step of the job creation wizard.
The table below outlines the media and hardware devices that BackupAssist supports, as well as which engines to which the destination applies.
| Destination | Compatible with | Backup Type(s) | Backup data |
Windows 2000, 2003 and XP
Any standalone tape drive compatible with Windows Backup (NTBackup.exe) Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 Wide variety of standalone tape drives. *Requires Zip-To-Tape Add-on |
System Protection (Server 2003 and older) File Archiving
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Written directly to tape media. |
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Any external hard drive supported by Windows (USB, Firewire, eSata, etc) |
System Protection File Protection File Archiving |
Written directly to external drive. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location. |
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The Tandberg Data rdx QuikStor drive and removable disk media. |
System Protection File Protection File Archiving |
Written directly to QuikStor disk. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location. |
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Windows Vista, 2008, 7 |
System Protection File Protection File Archiving |
Written directly to the iSCSI target. |
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NAS, SNAP and other network storage devices that appear as shares on the network. |
System Protection File Protection File Archiving |
Written directly to NAS device. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location. |
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Any machine that acts as an FTP server |
System Protection (Server 2003 or older) File Protection File Archiving |
Written to a local/network drive first and then transferred to the FTP server. |
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Any local drive or directory |
System Protection File Protection File Archiving |
Written directly to local directory. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location. |
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Variety of writable media: CD-R/RW, CD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Blu-ray, DVD-RAM |
System Protection (Server 2003 or older) File Protection File Archiving |
Written to a local/network drive first and then burnt to writable media. |
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Any machine that can act as an Rsync server, compatible NAS device; and Amazon S3 via s3rsync.com *Requires Rsync standalone or Rsync Add-on license key |
File Protection |
Copied to Rsync destination using the Rsync protocol. |
Tape drive 
External HDD 
RDX Drives 
iSCSI
NAS
FTP Server
Local directory
Optical disc