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Direct san backups

Sulivan77
Level 4

I have 5230 and 5220 backup appliances as well as IBM DS3512 san Storage.  I was wondering if there was a way to do direct from san snapshots of a lun.  I have an 8 TB lun with over 20million tiny files on it that I need to backup.  The server connected server is windows 2003 which is just super.  VSS snapshots are a little faster than paint drying but I was wondering if there was a way to do direct snapshotbackups. 

 

Sully

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Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Depending on the model of your appliances some do support Fibre Transport so you could make you client a SAN Client and do FT to the appliance

See the snapshot client guide for more details

Failing that client side de-dupe and accelerator may work for you

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Mark_Solutions
Level 6
Partner Accredited Certified

Depending on the model of your appliances some do support Fibre Transport so you could make you client a SAN Client and do FT to the appliance

See the snapshot client guide for more details

Failing that client side de-dupe and accelerator may work for you