Logical disks may be just a single disk, part of a volumeset, part of a stripeset, part of a host-based shadowset, part of a host-based raid set or any combination. The file to be used for the logical disk may be placed on any physical disk, in any directory. A backup can be made to protect the disk. A physical device may be 'replaced' by a logical disk to enable logging of all I/O of the physical disk (See CONNECT/REPLACE).