Choosing a hardware destination

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.
Choosing a backup type

• If you are using either NTBackup or File Replication you can choose to encrypt your backups using TrueCrypt:
  
  What is TrueCrypt?
  

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 engine(s)	Backup data
Tape drive	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	NTBackup Zip (with Zip-To-Tape Add-on)	Written directly to tape media.
External HDD	Any external hard drive supported by Windows (USB, Firewire, eSata, etc)	NTBackup Imaging File Replication Zip	Written directly to external drive. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location.
REV drive	The Iomega REV drive (35 / 70GB) and removable REV media	NTBackup Imaging File Replication Zip	Written directly to REV drive. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location.
rdx QuikStor drive	The Tandberg Data rdx QuikStor drive and removable disk media (40, 80, 120GB)	NTBackup Imaging File Replication Zip	Written directly to QuikStor disk. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location.
NAS	NAS, SNAP and other network storage devices that appear as shares on the network.	NTBackup Imaging File Replication Zip Rsync	Written directly to NAS device. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location.
FTP Server	Any machine that acts as an FTP server	NTBackup Zip	Written to a local/network drive first and then transferred to the FTP server.
Local directory	Any local drive or directory	NTBackup Imaging File Replication Zip	Written directly to local directory. A second copy can also be stored on an alternate location.
Optical disc	Variety of writable media: CD-R/RW, CD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, Blu-ray, DVD-RAM	NTBackup Zip	Written to a local/network drive first and then burnt to writable media.
Rsync server	Any machine that can act as an Rsync server, compatible NAS device; and Amazon S3 via s3rsync.com *Requires BackupAssist for Rsync license	Rsync	Copied to Rsync destination using the Rsync protocol.