Backup directly from SAN to Tape using backup exec 15?

Thank VJware.

Ok so in Windows Disk Manager the LUN should look like a local disk and have a drive letter, you then back it up via the drive letter.

If it is not visible in Windows disk manager OR does not have a drive letter then please be careful as if this LUN is also attached to another server or host then you cannot do what you are trying to do (unless either Offhost ADBO or VMware configurations are applicable) Any attempt to give the disk a drive letter when it is really in use by another server might corrupt the content of the LUN.

What is being described by the "want," of the original question, is the wrong way to do things, and will result in data loss.

What you want to do is an off-host backup, yet that array is most likely not in the HCL, nor good enough to have a snapshot provider.

What you need to do is contact Proware as this is their issue to help you properly zone your LUN's for access.  This isn't a backupexec issue.  If the windows server can't see the volume properly, this isn't a backupexec issue.

Thank for your supporting. :)

HI teiva-boy, Window server can see LUN but Symantec can't see.

so you are using iSCSI? or FC?

what drive letter does it use in Windows Explorer?

What are the results when you run B2Dtest?  http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH69107

If it's not a drive letter with NTFS/FAT on there, BackupExec won't use/see it.  If this is a LUN that is zoned to a different server, with data on it; do not pass go, do not make BackupExec access that LUN.  You will lose data.

What you want to be doing is an off-host backup, which is not supported with your SAN array and BackupExex, nor any other backup vendor in the world.  No one supports that brand from HP, Symantec, Commvault, EMC, etc.