With the sticking accelerator issue a Corolla might go as fast as a Ferrari eventually.  ;-)

Of course you haven't said what your disk storage is - mentioning LUN makes me think it is an external storage array.  Some of those have ways to copy data between arrays so if you have more than one array of the same manufacture you might look into that as a possibility.  Doesn't get it offsite but does get rid of the single point of failure.

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions

Absolutely.  They wanted to sell us a 15-20k piece of add-on software that archives data from the unformatted into "normally" readable content on another LUN.  We're trying to figure out if we can avoid that, as we don't have any archival requirements for this data, so it'd be one of those "buying a Ferrari when you need Corolla" kind of deals.



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From: Nardello, John [mailto:john.nardello AT cgi DOT com]
Sent: April 8, 2010 11:49 AM
To: Jonathan Dyck
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions

Just to ask the obvious question - how does the vendor expect you to perform backups of their proprietary system ? Do they have any recommendations that might help ?

- John Nardello
"Your backups are only as good as your restores."


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Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:20 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions

Hi all,
I have the pleasure of trying to protect data for a system that writes (obviously in a proprietary manner) data to an unformatted partition in Windows.  I've read the guides,  and see that it's unsupported by NBU (I tried anyways,  it teases you by actually backing up the blocks, then fails with a status code 1).

Just curious,  has anyone out there tried to do this without the use of hardware snapshots (which I think I'll have to fall back on)?

Cheers,
Jon

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