Hi,

I am looking at the possiblity of implementing open-e iSCSI, we currently use NAS-R3. We would liek to setup the following if it is possible:

1. Primary iSCSI server at data centre with multiple volumes for various servers
2. Secondary iSCSI Server at Head Office
3. Volume replication from primary to secondary
4. Tape library (incompatible with open-e) attached to windows server at Head Office.

Can we attach the replicated volumes that are sitting on the secondary iSCSI server to the backup server? effectively allowing us to have offline backups of the replicated data, as the backup server would see the data as local drives?

The question comes as I know you can't attached 2 initiators to the same volume and see the same data, but does that still applyif your connecting the second initiator to a different iSCSI server?

I'm guessing the only reason you couldn't is because the replicated volumes would retain some sort of identifier info that will make the volumes party to the same issue as if both servers were connecting to the same iSCSI server.

Cheers
Paul