07-01-2013 06:45 AM
Hi,
I'm currently using Backup Exec 11d on SBS2003. I'm thinking of buying an iSCSI RAID array. One of the servers I backup via a remote agent would connect to the array via windows iSCSI initiator. Will the Backup Exec remote agent recognise the RAID array as being a local disk (like windows does) and allow me to backup it's contents?
Thanks in advance
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07-01-2013 10:04 AM
07-01-2013 11:10 AM
Thanks for the correction Craig,
Perhaps i misunderstood Uncle Romania. On my reading the posting it appeared to me that they were trying to backup the contents of the newly added storage location and not "Redirect" the backup to it. Uncle Romania if you would please clarify for me what youre trying to accomplish. If you are trying to simply backup the content of the attached storage using the remote agent then i believe that you would be able to acccomplish this without issue.
07-01-2013 06:49 AM
It will see it as windows does... So if windows sees the attached storage as local so will B.E.
07-01-2013 10:04 AM
07-01-2013 11:10 AM
Thanks for the correction Craig,
Perhaps i misunderstood Uncle Romania. On my reading the posting it appeared to me that they were trying to backup the contents of the newly added storage location and not "Redirect" the backup to it. Uncle Romania if you would please clarify for me what youre trying to accomplish. If you are trying to simply backup the content of the attached storage using the remote agent then i believe that you would be able to acccomplish this without issue.
07-01-2013 11:23 AM
...could be that too!
07-01-2013 01:48 PM
07-01-2013 10:35 PM
An iSCSI array when connected to a Windows host via the iSCSI initiator from Microsoft, will present a local disk in which you can format like you would any other type of disk. So drive letters, formatting, etc all apply like it were another hard drive.
Since it's iSCSI, you can share this array with really ANY host that has an iSCSI initiator installed. For Windows 2003 it was a free download, for Win2k8 it's part of the OS. This means you can carve up space for your client to put data on to. As well as carve up some space for your BackupExec host to use for B2D.
So the answer is really all of the above posts, depending on how you want to use it and partition it out to hosts.
07-01-2013 11:32 PM
...if you're simply carving out storage and presenting to the remote server, you'd format the drive and put data on it. You're then able to backup the data from the remote server to the media server with no hassles.
Thanks!