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Mo_Chowdhury
Level 4
11 years ago

USB External Tape Drives - BE 2010 R3 / 2012

Hi, At the moment I'm running BE 2010 R3 on a Server 2008 x64 server (physical) with an external USB tape drive (HP StorageWorks). This setup currently works no problem. Going forward, I intend t...
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  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    11 years ago

    Have a look @ this KB - http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH130609

    If it recall, its similar for USB / PCI passthrough as well.

    If the media server has to be installed on a VM, its better (and imho reliable) to backup to disk storage instead of tape media.

Mo_Chowdhury's avatar
Mo_Chowdhury
Level 4
11 years ago

Do you think it might work even though Symantec don't officially support it?

Alternatively, I would install this on the host and load BE on it but ideally I want to load it on the VM with it accessing the storage for disk backup and tape backup (if it USB passes through and works).

Thanks.

Mo