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I would have to respectfully disagree on the offhost backup part. :)
Here's Dell's official technical paper on this: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/powervault-md3200-series-hyper-v-protection.pdf
Quote:
A more convenient way to back up VMs with Backup Exec 12.5 is to use the Microsoft VSS Service withthe MD3200 or MD3200i storage array VSS hardware provider that is included on the MD3200 / MD3200iseries of storage arrays series of storage arrays Resource CD. This method lets you create hardwarebasedsnapshots on the MD3200 or MD3200i storage array and map them automatically to yourdedicated backup server without performing any scripting.
You can even take a VSS snapshot from the command line using hardware VSS over CSVs.
A VSS provider backup is not an offhost backup unless you choose to transport the snapshot volume over to the media server, which is optional. Otherwise the snapshot volume is mounted on the host and the Backup Exec agent just streams the data over to the media server.
Also, since Microsoft DPM 2010 can also do the offhost backup part, I really doubt Backup Exec couldn't, but I'm not sure. However, this thread is not really about offhost backups.
Backup Exec is supposed to be much more mature, and it is why we're looking into it as our first option of licensing.
Again. I have created a screencast of all the steps I'm going through, from setting up the backup to when the error appears in the event log, it's only a few minutes long, so if anyone wants to help and take a look at it, please let me know and I'll PM you the link.
Thanks!
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