DSS Lite - Total storage size exceeded licensed capacity

[To-M]

1) Is there any way in the Lite version to copy the data from a S/W raid volume? In other words if we wanted to take a quarterly backup of the data on to a USB drive or something.

You can use the Trial version with the Data Replication.

2) If we take a backup of the configuration and attempt to restore it to an older version of DSS will it work or will that version need to be upgraded first?

For the Settings yes but if the config is different on the other server it will not be the same.

[SophInfra]

-We plan on sticking with the Lite version for now so is there any way to do it in Lite?

-Since we can't do RAID on the OS drive our plan is to keep a spare drive with just the open-e software installed in a safe and restore the configuration to it in the event of an OS drive failure. However, I the drive in the safe will eventually be out of date as far as DSS versions go so that's why I was asking. So it sounds like we can restore an older config to a newer version, correct?

[Gr-R]

--Since we can't do RAID on the OS drive our plan is to keep a spare drive with just the open-e software installed in a safe and restore the configuration to it in the event of an OS drive failure. However, I the drive in the safe will eventually be out of date as far as DSS versions go so that's why I was asking. So it sounds like we can restore an older config to a newer version, correct?

-None of the DSS versions allow you to use the boot media in the storage array.
-should the boot media fail, it is far faster and easier to use a boot cd, or bootable USB thumb drive to get you back up and running, while you figure out your problems.
-Yes, older configs can be restored to newer versions of DSS, in the same box. This is normal, and is done for example, when users upgrade from version5 to version6.

[To-M]

You can use the Backup function to a Dynamic unit from a USB drive.