My firm has 2 Open-E DSS v6 server with several iSCSI volumes (for which replication/failover is setup). We are a "belt and suspenders and duct-tape" type of organization, and are looking to also backup the data to tape for off site storage.
I search the forums postings on the subject of backups, and I found a September 2008 post Backup iSCSI Volume Data in which To-M (from Open-E) states "... we are working on a solution to backup iSCSI Logical Volumes in the near future, no official time table is set yet". There hasn't been any more recent posting on point.
Further, my review of the Open-E publications found this item Backup Solutions with Open-E Data Storage Software. It states, another other points, that all data residing on DSS can be backed-up to a Tape Library or Tape Drive.
I have gone thru the setup of our servers and can't find anything that would enable iSCSI backups. What am I missing?
Thanks to all