Backup and Restore Protocols for vCenter Server

The vCenter Server backup and restore feature supports a number of plug-in communication protocols.

Choose one of these protocols as the backup location type when you invoke the operation.

• FTP
• FTPS
• SCP
• HTTP
• HTTPS
• NFS
• SMB

The value PATH for the location type field indicates a locally mounted volume.

Note: If you specify the SCP protocol, you must specify an absolute path as the value of the location type field when you create the backup job.