Managed volumes

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Managed volumes

The local disk volumes on your server computer that are under Remote Storage control are called managed volumes. For example, you can configure drive C as a managed volume. If you have supplementary hard disks on other drives, such as D, E, and so forth, you can also configure these as additional managed volumes.

Disk volumes managed by Remote Storage must be nonremovable and must be formatted with NTFS.

Remote Storage automatically copies data from managed volumes to remote storage according to a schedule and to rules that you specify. You configure the amount of free disk space you want to maintain on the managed volumes and the criteria used to copy specific files to remote storage.

The following figure illustrates how Remote Storage copies files from local storage to remote storage.