A store group is a logical collection of Stores that allows for creating multiple copies of protected data on different storage devices. Store groups enable automatic fail-over between online media, dynamic rotation of removable media, and round-robin selection of fixed drive media. After a store group is created, it appears in the All Store Groups folder.


Part of creating and maintaining the settings for a store group includes specifying which stores are members of the group and how the software will select available stores when the group is used by Protection Plans and Store Copy Tasks.


From the All Store Groups folder, you can see any added group and the stores that are members of the group. Information such as the store name, size of the storage, status (Available or Offline), and the device location are displayed in the status (center) pane.


See Store Groups for more information.