On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes the host can talk just about any other way besides iSCSI to another
>> host. I never said it couldn't. Hence why I was going to resort to the rsync
>> method.
>
> Why can't the guest talk to iscsi?  Or reboot the guest (or even host)
> with a recent ubuntu-based clonezilla-live and have it write the image
> copied to an NFS export from a different system that has its disks on
> the SAN?
>
>> So my thinking is that I can simply setup another physical host that does
>> not have the iSCSI issue, create a share or similar on it that the current
>> host can access and has no problem writing to, and then copy the data over
>> to the SAN. Simple enough.
>
> If the SAN is just a temporary copy that you are going to reload
> elsewhere, the clonezilla image copy should be the perfect storage
> format.
>
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>   Les Mikesell
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Very good point Les. I did not even think about the storage partition
files that clonezilla uses. That may be exactly what I do. Thanks for
reminding me about that.

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