Questions about Luns and backing up

DevilWAH

Hi

We have a Nexsan SATASbeast split in to 4 luns. One of these Luns is connected to a Vsphere 5 setup via Iscsi, and is sued by the VMware Data Recovery server as a back up destination ..

My questions is how can I back up this LUN to tape? Can a separate server mount this LUN as a hard disk and back it up using a standard backup method.

Or how can we get that data of the SATAbeast on to a of network media??

Cheers

Aaron

blargoe

If you have a backup solution that integrates with vCenter (NetBackup, Backup Exec, and Tivoli support this), you can follow their documentation to backup the LUN to tape. From what I remember from NetBackup, you could add the LUN to the Windows NetBackup server, as long as you don't mount it (you had to turn off auto mounting in Windows by running a command). Then, pulling configuration info from vCenter, you could backup each of the VMs