From a store group property page, you can add or remove stores as members, order the stores within the group to change their priority, and change the store selection preference setting.


All stores are listed in the store group property page. To include a store in the group, check the box next to the store you would like to add. To remove a store from the group, uncheck the box.


The order of checked stores from top to bottom in the list is important to the store selection preference setting. To order the stores in the box use the up and down arrows to switch the position of the selected store.


When a Protection Plan or Store Copy Task is configured to target a store group, the stores in the group are analyzed and a determination is made to use an available store based on the store selection preference setting for the group.


If you choose "Selects the first available store in the order specified", the first available store will be used in priority order specified in the list. A store is considered unavailable if it is offline, read-only or has less than the minimum free space required. Choose this setting for automatic fail-over between online media.


If you choose "Selects the most recently used available store", the most recently used and available store in the group will be used for subsequent plan or copy task runs until the store is either offline, read-only or has less than the minimum free space required. Choose this setting for dynamic rotation of removable media.


If you choose "Selects the least recently used available store", the least recently used and available store in the group will be used for the next plan or copy task run. Stores are selected in circular order creating copies of data on multiple stores. Choose this setting for round-robin selection of fixed drive media.


See Adding Store Groups for more information.