The vCenter Server Appliance 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

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.