Appliances and zoning up basic disk from a san.

[Sulivan77]

I have 5230s fully populated with 64 TB of Dedupe.  I have picky DBAs that do their own backup files of SQL.  Obviously backup sql backup files to a dedup pool makes no sense.  

I have loads of san storage laying around. And the company wants NBU to be the holder of these backups files.  I need to find documentation if any is available on how to zone up a san to a 5230 without OST just so I can use basic disk as a taget for these backups.

Thanks

[Mark_Solutions · Accepted solution]

As with any netbackup installation you can  use a remote disk location as a basic disk storage unit using a UNC path - it can have issue though as you need to make sure the appliance has full rights to it.

It may be easier to mount the file system as a NFS share and then select that at the storage unit location:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH206155

The appliance is just a media server using SUSE Linux - so what ever you can do with such a server can be done with an appliance

Hope this helps