[Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dyck
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

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

2010-04-08 Thread Lightner, Jeff
@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.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

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

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dyck
the snapshots). I'll let you know how it goes. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: April 8, 2010 9:48 AM To: Jonathan Dyck; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions If I had

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

2010-04-08 Thread Nicholas
. -Original Message- From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: April 8, 2010 9:48 AM To: Jonathan Dyck; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions If I had to do this in UNIX/Linux and couldn't do it with NBU I'd

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

2010-04-08 Thread Nardello, John
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dyck Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:20 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Hi all, I have the pleasure of trying to protect data

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

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dyck
a Ferrari when you need Corolla kind of deals. -Original Message- From: Nardello, John [mailto:john.narde...@cgi.com] Sent: April 8, 2010 11:49 AM To: Jonathan Dyck Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Just to ask

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

2010-04-08 Thread Lightner, Jeff
Dyck Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:16 PM To: Nardello, John Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU 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

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

2010-04-08 Thread Nardello, John
. =) - John Nardello From: Lightner, Jeff [mailto:jlight...@water.com] Sent: Thu 4/8/2010 9:59 AM To: Jonathan Dyck; Nardello, John Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions With the sticking

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

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Dyck
Dyck Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up unformatted primary partitions Quick check, you said you tried backing this up already - do you mean as a raw partition ? i.e. File list looked something like: \\.\E file:///\\.\E : If that's not working