Hello,

All explenations about backup/restore are about NAS, just plain files on a filesystem and then having the data after a restore on a windows machine...

What we want: suppose an ISCSI volume used by Xenserver 6.1 got corrupted, the Ext3 filesystem is broken and now several VPS's broke down.

How (and i havent seen this in any presentation) can we restore a whole volume with all Ext3 data in it?

It makes no sense to have ext3 data available on a windows server share we want whole volumes to be able to be restored quickly.

Question is how?

So:
1 big volume group with all data in it...

Volume 1: 100GB (VPS's 1-5)
Volume 2: 200GB (VPS's 6-10)
Volume 3: 250GB (VPS's 11-15)

Volume 2 of 200GB gets corrupted and Xenserver cannot use VPS 6-11 any more and snapshots are no use since the volume is broken...

How can we within a short time, click and say:

Delete Volume 2, restore Volume 2, start the ISCSI target en connect Xenserver en run the VPS's again....

In this way we will have:
1. Xenserver Snaps and,
2. Complete volume backups.

If the VPS is broken we will have Xenserver snaps if the volume on open-e gets broken we have the backup/restore in place of all SCSCI volumes...

Thanks!