About Backing up the data on the LUN

[Jacky_Wu]

Dear everyone,

I have one Lun assigned for Server A. There are a lot of data inside. I want to do the Backup Job. In order to speed up backup, I come up with idea about attaching LUN to the Backup Server. Therefore the Backup Server could directly access to the data from the LUN.

But I tried it, it seems that it is not working. The Lun data shared between 2 servers could not be the same. What shall I do? Do I need special agent in the BE? Do I need special software?

Sincerely!

Jacky 

[teiva-boy]

 You can't just make a LUN on a SAN avail to another Windows host.  That is a great way to corrupt the partition or data.

What kind of data, and what kind of throught and times are you looking at currently?

You have a few choices.
1.  Off host backup if your SAN device is supported.  This requires the Advanced Disk Based Option
2.  Make the client machine into a media server, so that it can back itself up over the SAN to some (hopefully) shared tape library with the SSO option...