Hello,

We have a backup/restore question.
Next week we will deploy a dedicated cluster of open-e SAN's with the Active-Active plugin and replication between them.
If the data would be corrupt, we want to be able to restore the whole boxes from a 3rd machine (disaster recovery).
We will have Xenserver ISCSI block mode device of 3-4TB that will hold all Xenserver images in a ext3 or lvm image.

I watched the backup presentation and the fact that restores can be done, but that is only to restore certain files (but will that work on Xenserver?).

How would we make reliable backups to:
1. be able to restore individual Xenserver vm's (data inside the Xenserver ISCSI volume)
2. be able to restore the complete open-e san servers from auxilary storage (iscsi).

Thanks in advance. Our fear is we loose all data in a fatal crash and are unable to restore. Or that it will be very hard to restore individual VM's when corrupted...

We have a backup server with Linux which we can build like a ISCSI target or f.e. rsync server. Would rsync be able to do the trick?

We could run rsync then f.e. every day or two days. And in case of disaster restore all content back?

Regards,