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 store data to 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 and has less than the minimum free space required.

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 or has less than the minimum free space required available. This is the suggested option for stores on removable media.

If you choose "Selects the least recently used available storage", each available store will alternate being used by plans or copy tasks creating a number of copies of data on multiple stores. This is the suggested option for stores on fixed drives.

See Adding Store Groups for more information.