The fourth step in creating a protection plan is choosing the cartridge that will receive the data from your plan. It is highly recommended that more than one cartridge be used to protect your data (see Cartridge Rotation).


By default, the software will assign all of your cartridges to any protection plan you create.


The option, "Automatically assign this plan to all new cartridges" is selected by default. This option will ensure that the protection plan you are creating will use any cartridge that is presented to the software.


You can attach a protection plan to a particular cartridge by choosing the "I'll choose which cartridge to use for this plan" option. This will cause the software to allow a particular cartridge to be selected for use by the protection plan, as shown below. Choose which cartridge to use for the plan by clicking one of the check boxes next to a cartridge name. See Cartridge for more information on how a cartridge is named and how to modify the name of the cartridge.


The last step in creating a Protection Plan is creating a schedule for the plan to execute and archive the data. Click the "Schedule" tab or click "Next" to continue.