BE2012 can use Ext-HDD 3TB?

[Vecente]

I want to backup server by BE2012and I want to know.

Can I backup data to USB Ext-HDD 3TB (backup storage) that covert to GPT drive or not ?

[pkh]

No. GPT is not supported.

[CraigV]

...format the drive without GPT and it should be fine.

TO confirm that it is (after formatting!), you can download & run b2dtest.exe against the drive that will let you know if the HDD is compatible.

THanks!

[Vecente]

Thank you for reply.

But my backup server installed OS windows 2003 SP2

It can found Ext-HDD 3TB with out covert to GPT ?

[pkh]

BE may be able to recognise your GPT disks, but if you back up to them, you are likely to get an error.

Re-partition your disk into two partitions.  They should not be greater than 2TB and then re-format them.

[CraigV]

...mmm...not sure this will work, but try creating 2 partitions on the drive. See if this gets around the GPT...

[Colin_Weaver]

Can the OP please confirm do you want to use this GPT disk as a Backup Target, or are you intending backing up from this USB disk?

Reason for question is I suspect we have not even thought to test a GPT disk as a Backup Target.

Also If you are backing up from this disk that I am not sure that GPT is unsupported as a file system backup, it is unsupported for VMware GRT backups - as such if backing up FROM GPT then please confirm what sort of backup you are running.

[Vecente]

My system have

1. VM Host Run ESXi4.0

• VM Guest 1 - Mail Server - MS Exchange
• VM Guest 2 - File Server

2. Database Server (Physical Server) - MS SQL

3. Backup Server (Physical Server) - OS Windows2003 SP2 and Install BE2012

I want to backup VM Guest 1, VM Guest 2 and Database server

to Ex-HDD that connect to Backup Server by USB cable and Capacity of is 3 TB (RAID1)

I'm not sure nomally windows 2003 can see HDD that more than 2 TB but from this link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463524.aspx#ELB

If convert to GPT drive, windows 2003 can found it

I want to know BE2012 can use GPT Drive like a backup Storage or not?

[Colin_Weaver]

ok so now you need to use b2dtest.exe (http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH69107) on that USB drive and/or test a backup job with GRT enabled to it to see what the results are.