With the price of 2TB USB drives falling below $100, these devices have become a viable alternative to tape backup. They can be rotated just like tapes, and are more easily configurable as an alternate boot device. This 30-minute training will discuss how to configure and manage locally connected USB drives for backup as well as system recovery.

Topics Include:

– Adding a USB drive
– Configuring the drive to be bootable
– Rotating USB drives for offsite storage
– Using an internal drive as a local backup disk
– Network vs. Workstation Edition implementation
– Unconfiguring local backup drives