Thanks for the idea, looks brilliant (if I can get it to work ;-) I definitely have concerns with the snapshots, mostly because they'll be copy-on-write snaps, not clones, and they'll reside on the same storage array as the primary data (obviously not ideal, as if the array goes, so too do 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 to do this in UNIX/Linux and couldn't do it with NBU I'd probably use the "dd" command. On doing a quick check I do see there are dd commands for Windows. The first link I found is: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd Essentially what you do is dd the device so you get all its blocks into a dump file. You can then backup that dump file. Not sure who well the above works for Windows - just throwing it out there as something to explore. If you have snapshotting capabilities that already work for this purpse its probably better to go that route but I'm not sure from the way you described it that you'd be able to backup the snapshot any better than the original. -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Dyck Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:20 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 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)? 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