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„valid characters: A–Z,a–z,0–9 @ (at symbol), . (period), - (hyphen)

„length of input: 4–50 characters

4Enter the password for the FTP server (required).

„length of input: 4–20 characters

5Enter the host name or IPv4 address of the FTP server (required).

„valid characters: A–Z,a–z,0–9 @ (at symbol), . (period), - (hyphen)

„valid length of input: 1–50 characters

6If necessary, enter the directory to which the backup file should be saved.

„valid characters: any

„length of input: 0–256 characters

7If necessary, enter the name of the backup file.

Note: If you create a filename containing illegal characters, the backup will fail.

„valid characters: any, except / (slash) and \ (backslash)

„length of input: 1–256 characters

The default file name will be the current date in an 8-digit format: YYYYMMDD. If you want another date format, you can use the Help available to select a preferred format. For example, if you enter the filename “backup_%d_%B.tar” you will get filenames with a numeric day of the month (ex. 20) and a month (ex. May).

Note: Make sure you pick a format that is compatible with the operating system running on your FTP server. Some operating systems will not interpret slashes (/) or colons (:) as valid characters.

8Enter the port number of the FTP site to which you are connecting.

„ 1–65, 535

9If Network Discovery has been set up for e-mail, choose whether or not Network Discovery will send e-mail on success and on failure and to whose e-mail address.

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