You are here: Archiving Overview > Archive media types

Archive media types

Unitrends supports archiving to disk, tape, external storage, and cloud storage. For considerations specific to each media type, see the applicable archiving chapters.

Not all media types are supported for all Unitrends appliances. To determine which media your appliance supports, see the applicable document in the following list:

• Unitrends Backup appliances: Unitrends Backup Datasheet
• Recovery Series appliances: Recovery Series Appliance Family Data Sheet

See the following topics for an introduction to the different archive media types:

• Archiving to disk devices
• Archiving to tape devices
• Archiving to network storage devices
• Archiving to cloud storage

Note:  You cannot archive to optical media (CD or DVD), but you can archive to a hard disk and then convert it to optical media.