Re: NetWare 6.5 virtualised, backup options
Anders Gustafsson
> i can happily backup and restore my windows servers, however, what are
> my options when i virtualise the netware server ?
>
Either the full VM or any backup option that has a netware agent.
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Edward van der Maas
>
> Hi,
>
> i am going to virtualise my netware server onto a 2 node esx
> environment, this environment has a third physical server running
> BackupExec 12.5 and has the virtual infrastructure agent to do VCB
> based backups.
>
> i can happily backup and restore my windows servers, however, what are
> my options when i virtualise the netware server ?
>
> will i be able to backup and restore at a file level on the netware
> server ?
>
> im guessing not ?
>
> will i only be able to backup the vmdk as a whole ?
>
> what other options do i have ?
>
> backing up over the network isnt really an option as there is around
> 3TB of data...
Unfortunately VCB doesn't support netware to do file level backup so
all you can do a vmdk backup.
--
Cheers,
Edward
Phillip Armitage
Netware VM vmdk files reside on a SAN. Backup Exec 12.5 runs on a separate
computer performing over the network backups.Netware running Backup Exec
Netware agent.
According to my Backup Exec logs, for a full backup of my largest Netware
server, the backup rate is 2,549MB/min. Or, it takes 6hrs 25mins to back up
1,018,030,389,137 bytes of data. So, for 3TB you're probably looking at 20
hrs for a full backup.
Have tried using vcbMounter to make a snapshot of the Netware VM to the
local hard drive of the computer running Backup Exec, but it never works.
Gets around 55% then starts timing out, so it looks like using VCB to backup
Netware doesn't work. Then again, it may be that I don't have enough free
disk space in my VMDK to permit the snap shot to occur properly. Still
investigating that.
Hope the info helps.
"jamiesinclair" <jamies...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> i am going to virtualise my netware server onto a 2 node esx
> environment, this environment has a third physical server running
> BackupExec 12.5 and has the virtual infrastructure agent to do VCB based
> backups.
>
> i can happily backup and restore my windows servers, however, what are
> my options when i virtualise the netware server ?
>
> will i be able to backup and restore at a file level on the netware
> server ?
>
> im guessing not ?
>
> will i only be able to backup the vmdk as a whole ?
>
> what other options do i have ?
>
> backing up over the network isnt really an option as there is around
> 3TB of data...
>
> thanks
> Jamie
>
>
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