[Veritas-bu] VMware backup host

Subject:	[Veritas-bu] VMware backup host
From:	Howard Graylin <hgraylin AT cspire DOT com>
To:	"veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:40:58 +0000

Does a media server that’s designated as a VMware off-host backup need to be attached to storage? The reason for asking is that my current server used for VMware backups is broken and I’ve been working with support to fix it for at least 2 weeks. I found another server and installed Windows 2008 R2 and Netbackups 7.1.0.4 on it. However…it doesn’t have any storage attached to it. If I set the policy to use this server as the off-host backup server but specify another datastore, will this work?

In essence what I’m trying to do is build a server to handle the Vmware backups, but using another media server to actually write the data. I’m going to look through the VMware admin guide, but also wanted to post the question to the group.

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