An environment is a collection of servers. An environment may also have workers or a hypervisor host. A source environment is used to discover and protect your source servers. A target environment is used for the cloud and to provision resources and failover servers in the cloud. You must add a source environment that you will then populate with the source servers you want to protect. You must also add a target environment that you will then populate with your target appliance.
Once you have an environment created, you can add servers or target appliances to the environment manually or through discovery. Discovery is the process of scanning a host in an environment to identify the servers on that host. You can also create a target appliance in your target cloud environment.
When you have your source servers in your servers list, you can protect those servers. You protect source servers in groups, even if you have just one source in a group. Groups allow you to manage your servers in orchestration with each other.
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Your environment must meet the following requirements.
This article outlines the available options within the Carbonite Recover interface.
A target appliance is a virtual server in the cloud created from a template provided by Carbonite. You must have at least one target appliance, and it can protect multiple source servers. However, you may need additional target appliances if you are protecting a larger number of disks or to help balance the load when protecting many servers.
Instructions for setting up two-factor verification for Carbonite Server Backup.