To send the backups to Local/Network Folder/NAS, navigate to the Store backups in selected destinations section, click on the plus icon, and select Local/Network Folder/NAS.

Basic Minimum Settings

In the opened dialog specify a path to your local or network folder or NAS. To send the backups to a network folder, specify an UNC path such as \\myserver\backup.

Auto delete old backups after section allows to set the retention period for your old backups by specifying the time interval. If the backup was executed successfully and uploaded to the storage without issues, then after this period expires, the old backup will be deleted.

Advanced Backup Settings

• Auto delete Diff & TranLog after Months. Specify the time period after which old differential and transaction log backups should be deleted.
• Send backup types. Tick off what backup types will be stored in the destination.
• Verify backup files on the destination after uploading. After uploading a file to the destination, SQLBackupAndFTP verifies that the files have been successfully uploaded to the destination. This verification is done using hash sums of the uploaded files.
  This feature is useful as it allows you to understand if there were any issues with the backup at the time of its creation. This option is enabled by default. However, in rare cases, this verification may result in a false positive. This means that the file was uploaded correctly, but for some reason, the file size returned incorrectly. For example, this can happen when the file is saved on a device that supports hardware compression. For such cases, you can disable this option.
• Emergency destination. If this option is enabled, SQLBackupAndFTP will use this destination only when there are errors copying the backup to the primary storage. For example, this might occur if there is insufficient space in the regular storage.

Advanced Local/Network Folder/NAS Settings

Some network shares (like NAS drives) may require different settings from your Windows account username and passwords. You can specify them here if you need to.