Local backup for FC & iSCSI volumes

[Robotbeat]

You can't do that, since Fibre Channel targets are file-system agnostic, so all they see is blocks of bytes. You could make up your own filesystem and store it on a FibreChannel target.

Also, Open-E doesn't do block-level backups, yet.

[jmo]

You can't do that, since Fibre Channel targets are file-system agnostic, so all they see is blocks of bytes. You could make up your own filesystem and store it on a FibreChannel target.

Also, Open-E doesn't do block-level backups, yet.

Thanks for the reply.

I indeed do believe that file-level FC/iSCSI "devices" could easily be backed up by the local client since, after all, they're files in the (DSS') local file system . This would be similar to backing up "virtual disk" images on a VMware/Xen host.

But I have understood that this currently isn't implemented, so we'll have to go for backup solutions from inside the VMs residing on these FC targets.

Thanks again for your answer, it has helped me to see which way we'll have to go with our future backup concept.

Regards
Jens