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If your NAS is capable of iSCSI, then the easiest way to back it up is to connect it via iSCSI to the BE Server and back it up just like a local disk.
If it is not capable of iSCSI, then you can back it up by either
a) configuring it as a shared directory and back it up as if it is a remote device. You would need a AWS licence to do this.
b) using NDMP. You would need a BE NDMP licence to do NDMP backup.
pkh wrote:If your NAS is capable of iSCSI, then the easiest way to back it up is to connect it via iSCSI to the BE Server and back it up just like a local disk.
If it is not capable of iSCSI, then you can back it up by either
a) configuring it as a shared directory and back it up as if it is a remote device. You would need a AWS licence to do this.
b) using NDMP. You would need a BE NDMP licence to do NDMP backup.
Thanks for the reply,
I would need to double check whether both server and NAS have the iSCSI option. Since I want to have everything covered beforehand, just in case it does not have the iSCSI option:
I think "a)" would be dificult as if I am not mistaken, AWS would need to be installed on NAS and in order to do it, so I believe "b)" would be a preffered option. In both cases, I wouldn't like to purchase and/or request to purchase a license and then having that not to work. Is that possible to request a trial licence in order to and if it works then proceed with the purchase of it?
Edit: sorry, I have just checked that Trial can be done on BE server itself, but still I have a question regarding that originally when I added the server as a NDMP Server it did not show any content of the files that are under it, it not having installed the BE NDMP licence related to it?
- pkh8 years agoModerator
You do not install AWS on the NAS. The AWS licence is a licencing requirement to backup a remote device like a NAS.
When you backup a device via NDMP, you backup the entire volume. You cannot choose files/folders to backup. You only get the choice to choose particular files/folders during restores.
- gabriel_abib8 years agoLevel 3
The AWS part I got mixed up, but still, though not having any licence installed (which on backing up would give me an error due not having the licence), wouldn't I be able to see which are the files that are inside the CIFS share from the NAS? Since those are not displayed.
On the image attached it is the NAS with its folders, but the Folders highlighted are the ones with information/files/folders inside it but when I select one of them it shows it has nothing on it. Would that be due not having the NDMP licence installed?
- Colin_Weaver8 years agoModerator
Are those line highlighted in yellow volume names within the NDMP device (that happen to also be share names)
Asking the question as that screenshot looks like NDMP selections and not CIFS selection
BTW when you first create a remote server object as either NDMP or CIFS to change to the other type you have to delete the object and recreate it (and before you recreate you have to either disable NDMP or enable NDMP on the NDMP device itself, depending on the direction of the change.
Basically:
- share level (CIFS) backups have to have NDMP/NDMPD disabled on the storage device
- the NDMP option backups have to have NDMP/NDMPD enabled on the storage device.
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