You'd be surprised on what little difference there can be between LAN and SAN 
backups. However...

Your next best bet is to do a dump of the database to a flat file, and then 
using the LAN-free storage agent to back that up across the SAN (to tape only, 
I'm afraid). If you don't have the storage agent license purchased, you'll need 
to do that in order to do SAN-based backups on that box.

--
Mark Stapleton
System engineer, CDW


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Adrian C. Pardo
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 2:02 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

Stef

Well, next question, how can we do a Lan Free backup of these SQL bases...
Doing via LAN will take forever!!

Adrian


-----Mensaje original-----
De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] En nombre de 
Stef
Coene
Enviado el: Lunes, 26 de Enero de 2009 17:50
Para: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Asunto: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP lan free backup on VMWARE

On Monday 26 January 2009, Adrian C. Pardo wrote:
> We need to backup a SQL database Using TDP and Lan Free on a  VMware
> machine (the database size is 700Gig Aprox)
>
> Any sugestion??
Not possible.  The client can not access the hardware for SAN access.


Stef

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