Destinations reference
Who is this article for?
Instructor, no.
Incydr Professional, Enterprise, Gov F2, and Horizon, no.
Incydr Basic, Advanced, and Gov F1, no.
CrashPlan Cloud, no.
Retired product plans, yes.
CrashPlan for Small Business, no.
Overview
A destination is a logical grouping of enterprise servers and storage servers within a single LAN or a single data center. Devices back up to destinations. For best data protection we always recommend backing up your devices to at least two destinations.
Storage hierarchy
There are four layers to the Code42 environment storage hierarchy: Destinations, servers, store points, and archives. Users only see destinations.
- Destination: The top level of the storage hierarchy; storage within a single LAN or data center that is grouped together logically. A destination must have at least one server and at least one store point in order to successfully receive backup data. By default, the data balancer automatically balances storage within a destination.
- Enterprise Server: A machine running Code42 environment software. An enterprise server can have multiple store points (for example, the Code42 for Enterprise managed appliance ships with two store points).
- Store point: Single directory where archives for one or many devices is stored. A store point must be associated with one and only one server. There is no limit to how large a store point can be.
- Archive: A directory where the data for a single device is stored. The directory is named after the source device's GUID. Within a single destination, the automatic data balancer may move an archive from one store point to another.
At any given time, a device is assigned to and backs up to one and only one store point within a destination. Details about the server or store point that a device backs up to is abstracted and never displayed to the user. Rather, the user is able to see information only about the destination.
Scaling
Multi-server support and automatic data balancing enable the Code42 environment to easily scale with your company's or organization's growing backup needs.
Multi-server support
If storage at one of your destinations reaches its capacity, simply add a storage server to the destination. Adding a storage server to a destination is completely invisible to the user.
Data balancing
The enterprise server can automatically balance consumed space within a single destination so that all its storage servers have approximately the same amount of free space, within a range of tolerance that you can define. It does this by safely moving archives between store points within the destination. Devices can continue to back up and restore (CrashPlan) and sync and share (SharePlan) while an associated backup archive is being balanced, a process that is completely invisible to users.
Data balancing is enabled by default for all new destinations and all new storage servers. However, the administrator must explicitly turn on data balancing for each store point. Balancing takes place only after balancing is enabled on two or more store points within the destination.
For all environments, we strongly recommend using the default data balancing settings. The default settings are based on years of experience with managing online storage and are fine-tuned to optimize storage across deployments of all sizes.
Multi-destination support with high availability for plans
Multi-destination support with high availability for plans is a feature of SharePlan that ensures plan files and events are available on all participating destinations, regardless of varying network topology, connectivity issues, or usage patterns. Destinations with high availability support enabled can retrieve plan data from each other instead of a client device.
Destination overview
The Destination Overview displays a list of all destinations configured within your environment.
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Action menu | Contains commands available in the Destinations list view. |
| b | Add destination | Displays a sheet in which you enter information required to add a destination. |
| c | Name | Destination name. Click a destination's Name to display the destination's details. |
| d | Accepting | Indicates applications that can store data on this destination: CrashPlan, SharePlan, or both. |
| e | Stored | Displays the total amount of disk space used for archives for all storage servers in this destination, server, or store point. |
| f | Free | Displays the amount of free space for all storage servers in this destination, server, or store point. |
| g | Total | Displays the total amount of disk space available for archives on this destination, server, or store point. |
| h | Connections | Indicates the number of currently connected devices in this destination, server, or store point. |
| i | Open Archives | Indicates the number of archives that are currently being accessed for backup or sync and share on this destination, server, or store point. |
| j | Accepting Data |
Indicates whether devices are allowed (enabled) or are not allowed (disabled) to send new data to existing archives on this destination, server, or store point.
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| k | Accepting New Archives |
Indicates whether devices are allowed (enabled) or are not allowed (disabled) to store new archives on this destination, server, or store point.
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| l | Balancing |
Indicates whether data balancing is enabled or disabled for this destination, server, or store point.
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| m | Destination | Displays a destination in your Code42 environment. Click the destination to display its details. Click ??? to expand and collapse associated servers and store points. |
| n | Server | Displays a server in your Code42 environment. Click the server to display its details. Click ??? to expand and collapse associated store points. |
| o | Store point | Displays a store point in your Code42 environment. Click the store point to display its details. |
- all destinations, servers, and store points accept incoming data.
- some destinations, servers, or store points accept incoming data.
- no destinations, servers, or store points accept incoming data.Action menu
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Export All | Export all destinations in the list to a CSV file. |
| Print the list of destinations. |
CSV export
Export all visible list items to a CSV file by selecting 
> Export All. If no destination is selected, all destinations in the list are exported.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
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destinationId |
The identification number of the destination. |
| destinationName | Name of the destination. |
| guid | Globally Unique IDentifier for this destination. |
| type |
Servers are either CLUSTER or PROVIDER. CLUSTER: A local server for which you have access. |
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acceptingInboundBackup |
Indicates whether devices are allowed (enabled) or are not allowed (disabled) to send new data to existing archives on this destination, server, or store point.
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balancingData |
Indicates whether data balancing is enabled or disabled for this destination, server, or store point.
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balancedStorePointCount |
Number of store points with data balancing enabled. |
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serverOnlineStatus |
Indicates whether the server is online. |
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clusterServerId |
Identification number for the cluster server. |
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serverCount |
Number of enterprise servers under this destination. |
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offlineServerCount |
Number of enterprise servers under this destination that are offline.
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storePointCount |
Number of store points under this destination. |
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orgCount |
Number of organizations under this destination. |
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userCount |
Number of users under this destination. |
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computerCount |
Number of devices under this destination. |
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onlineComputerCount |
Number of devices currently connected to this destination. |
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totalBytes |
Total storage capacity of the storage servers in this destination. |
| usedBytes | Amount of space used for all the storage servers in this destination. |
| usedPercentage | Percentage of used disk space for all the storage servers in this destination. |
| freeBytes | Amount of free space for all storage servers in this destination. |
| freePercentage | Percent of free space for all storage servers in this destination. |
| coldBytes | Amount of space consumed by archives in cold storage. |
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coldPercentageOfUsed |
Percentage of used space consumed by archives in cold storage. |
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coldPercentageOfTotal |
Percentage of total space consumed by archives in cold storage. |
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backupSessionCount |
Number of devices currently backing up and syncing to this destination. |
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inboundBandwidth |
Bandwidth the server is currently using for inbound backups. |
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outboundBandwidth |
Amount of bandwidth currently being used for restores. |
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archiveBytes |
Total size of files selected for back up and sync. |
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selectedBytes |
Total number of bytes selected for back up. |
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remainingBytes |
Total size of files waiting to be backed up. |
Add a new destination
Use the Add a New Destination command to create a new destination.
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Destination Name | Unique name of new destination. |
| b | Provider | Enable when you are using someone else's storage as a destination, such as cloud storage. |
Details
Destination Details displays stats and settings for the selected destination.
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Destination name | Name of this destination. |
| b | Destination GUID | Indicates the globally unique identifier for this destination. |
| c | Action menu | Contains actions that you can apply to this destination. |
| d | Servers | Displays the total number of servers in this destination and the total number of currently-online servers in this destination. |
| e | Store points | Displays the total number of store points in this destination. |
| f | Free | Displays the free space remaining in this destination. |
| g | Cold | Indicates the amount of space consumed by archives in cold storage. Click to view archives in cold storage. |
| h | Balancing | Displays whether balancing is enabled in this destination and the number of balancing operations currently in progress. Click to view Balancing Activity. |
| i | Used Storage | Displays statistics on the amount of data stored in this destination. |
| j | Storage Utilization | Compares the storage consumed per user. Click regions to view details. |
| k | Enable Balancer | Indicates whether data balancing is enabled for this destination. |
| l | Allowed Disk Variance | Displays the amount of variation allowed in disk utilization per storage server within the destination. |
| m | Priority Of Local Copy | Displays the process priority allocated to balancing actions between storage servers under a single server. |
| n | Priority Of Remote Copy | Displays the process priority allocated to balancing actions between storage servers across servers. |
| o | Accepting Applications | Indicates applications that can store data on this destination: CrashPlan, SharePlan, or both. |
Action menu
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Edit | Edit the selected destination's name and data balancing settings. |
| Add Server |
Add a storage server to this destination. |
| Remove | Remove this destination. Enabled only if this destination is not in use and has no assigned servers or storage servers. |
| Print details for this destination. |
Edit
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Name | Name for the selected destination. |
| b | Enable balancer | Enable or disable data balancing for this destination. Recommended setting is enabled. |
| c | Allowed disk variance | Sets the amount of variation allowed in disk utilization per storage server within the destination. Default of 20% is the recommended value. |
| d | Priority of local copy | Sets the process priority for copy actions performed during balancing between store points on the same server. Decrease priority to consume fewer system resources, generally disk I/O. |
| e | Priority of remote copy | Sets the process priority for copy actions performed during balancing between storage servers on different enterprise servers. Even though enterprise servers within a destination should be on the same LAN, bandwidth between enterprise servers is generally the limiting factor in copy speed for remote copies, so we recommend keeping the priority of remote copy at 100% in most cases. |
| f | Accepting Applications | Select an application to configure this destination to accept data from that application. Deselect an application to configure this destination to not accept data from that application. |
Add server
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Connection String | Connection string required to add a storage server to this destination. Copy the connection string that is presented when you create the storage server from Settings > Server > Make Storage Server. |
Archives
From the Destinations Overview, click a destination's Stored value to display a list of archives residing within the chosen Destination.
Note: Devices with a Code42 for Enterprise version 3.x archive and a SharePlan version 4.x archive display twice — once for each archive.
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Action menu | Display action menu. |
| b | Select All | Select all archives on this page. |
| c | Service | Displays whether the archive is used for CrashPlan or SharePlan. |
| d | GUID | Displays the Globally Unique Identifier corresponding to the archive. |
| e | Cold | A green dot indicates that the archive is in cold storage. |
| f | Stored | Size the archive consumes on its storage server. |
| g | Last Maintained | The most recent date on which archive maintenance was performed on the archive. |
| h | Last Completed Backup | Date and time when the device was last 100% backed up. If the device has never been 100% backed up, then this value displays the date and time when the device last backed up data. |
Action menu
When an archive is selected from the Archives list, the following commands are available from the action menu.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Migrate Archive... | Moves selected archives to a different store point. Data balancing must be on for target destination. To migrate all archives from one store point to another, turn off balancing on the store point you want to empty. |
| Reassign Archive... |
Reassigns selected archives to a different store point. Backups start from the beginning on the new store point. Use Reassign Archive when a store point has completely failed and there is no way to get the archives off the store point. SharePlan archives cannot be reassigned to other store points. |
| Maintain Archive... | Places the selected archive(s) into the system archive maintenance queue. |
| Reset Archive... | Deletes the contents of the selected archive(s). |
| Export All | Export the list of selected archives to a CSV file. Exports the list of all archives if no archives are selected. |
| Print... | Print the list of selected archives. Prints the list of all archives if no archives are selected. |
CSV export
Export all visible list items to a CSV file by selecting > Export All. If no destination is selected, all destinations in the list are exported.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
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destinationId |
The identification number of the destination. |
| destinationName | Name of the destination. |
| guid | Globally Unique IDentifier for this destination. |
| type |
Servers are either CLUSTER or PROVIDER. CLUSTER: A local server for which you have access. |
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acceptingInboundBackup |
Indicates whether devices are allowed (enabled) or are not allowed (disabled) to send new data to existing archives on this destination, server, or store point.
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balancingData |
Indicates whether data balancing is enabled or disabled for this destination, server, or store point.
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balancedStorePointCount |
Number of store points with data balancing enabled. |
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serverOnlineStatus |
Indicates whether the server is online. |
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clusterServerId |
Identification number for the cluster server. |
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serverCount |
Number of enterprise servers under this destination. |
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offlineServerCount |
Number of enterprise servers under this destination that are offline.
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storePointCount |
Number of store points under this destination. |
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orgCount |
Number of organizations under this destination. |
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userCount |
Number of users under this destination. |
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computerCount |
Number of devices under this destination. |
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onlineComputerCount |
Number of devices currently connected to this destination. |
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totalBytes |
Total storage capacity of the storage servers in this destination. |
| usedBytes | Amount of space used for all the storage servers in this destination. |
| usedPercentage | Percentage of used disk space for all the storage servers in this destination. |
| freeBytes | Amount of free space for all storage servers in this destination. |
| freePercentage | Percent of free space for all storage servers in this destination. |
| coldBytes | Amount of space consumed by archives in cold storage. |
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coldPercentageOfUsed |
Percentage of used space consumed by archives in cold storage. |
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coldPercentageOfTotal |
Percentage of total space consumed by archives in cold storage. |
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backupSessionCount |
Number of devices currently backing up and syncing to this destination. |
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inboundBandwidth |
Bandwidth the server is currently using for inbound backups. |
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outboundBandwidth |
Amount of bandwidth currently being used for restores. |
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archiveBytes |
Total size of files selected for back up and sync. |
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selectedBytes |
Total number of bytes selected for back up. |
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remainingBytes |
Total size of files waiting to be backed up. |
Balancing activity
To view balancing activity:
- Navigate to Destinations > Overview
- Select your desired destination
- Click the value in the Balancing column
| Item | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| a | Start Time | Time each data balancing job began |
| b | Archive | GUID of the archive moved by data balancing |
| c | From | Store point that the archive was moved from |
| d | To | Store point that the archive was moved to |
| e | Size | Size of the archive that was moved by data balancing |
| f | Run Time | Elapsed time of the data balancing job |