Run vmware. Backup the vmdk at your leisure. This covers everything you need and could be scripted with ntbackup and the free version and a 2nd drive in the system, or use something like netbackup (livestate) to get a vss snapshot of the drive with vmware on it.
Of course the free scenario requires you to suspend (or stop) your vm long enough to copy it to a secondary area and then back it up from there. _____ From: Neil Standley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Miracle Hi all, We're looking to upgrade from an Exabyte VXA-2 autoloader to a Tandberg Magnum LTO 3 or 4 autoloader and was wondering for those of you already running these, what kind of horsepower do you have in your backup servers and are you using SCSI or fiber channel? Single, dual, quad proc? How much ram, and are you running multiple backup jobs at once? I know you can do that writing to disk but is that even possible while writing to tape? Neil From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup Miracle That doesn't require a miracle. Our LTO drives get almost a gig a minute throughput. Well that's what backup exec reports anyhow. The server I just looked at backs up 130GB with verify in less then 2.5 hours. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Majorowicz <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:27 PM Subject: Backup Miracle I think I've been tasked with making something near impossible happen, so I'm going to start by asking the question here then start my google-fu. My boss has just asked for a backup solution that will do the following: Complete a full backup of SBS 2003 server. There is currently nearly 300 GB of data on this server. Wants Exchange included (Currently about 30 GB in size) Wants a system state Wants it verified. Must be complete in 10 Hours! The current backup system is taking about 24 hours to do this not including the verify, and I think there may be an I/O problem as it is NTBACKUP with BackupAssist v.4.0.16 backing up to a USB 2.0 drive. Unless my math is off, this backup should only take about 5 hours, assuming the transfer occurs at about 20 Mbps. Unfortunately there is some sort of bottleneck that is throttling this back to about 4. What am I missing that would help me fix this problem? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
