DISK Backups

[fazil1111]

Currently have problems creating Device that points to Windows 2003 server directory being used as ADV File device.
Backup server itself is win2k, Networker 7.1.2.
Device created as follows
\\Diskman01\DISK2.
Where diskman01 is win3k server, Disk2 is file share.
Remote user account is for Win3k server.
File permisions allow everyone full control.
When i lable the device just created on backup server i get error, Volhdr file permisions denied, unable to open.
Disk backup licence is applied to the backup server.
Recreating and reallocating permisions or device has no effect, do i have the syntex right for Adv file device ?
how should a device be created to be used by disk backup on an external server ?
I do have a adv file device locally on the server defined as
D:\Disk1 that works fine.

 

[605]

On Windows, device names must always be LOCAL names.

In this case you must make Diskman01 a remote storage node.
The device name should read as follows:

rd=diskman01:drive_letter:\directory

 

[605]

Sorry, i forgot that the following name is also valid:

[rd=sn_host:]\\cifs_host\share_name\directory

Do not forget that you must specify the "remote user" and
"password" as well.

 

[fazil1111]

Thanks for clearing that up, i was afread of that, i do not have storage node licence and baiscally, company most likely wont buy one, is there any other way, if i have disk backup option licenced to then backup to remote server without requiring storage node licence.
Perhaps a file type device or logical, what performace hit if any i might have to take, and or what impect would it have on staging ?

 

[605]

No - without a SN license there is no way - the data must be sent to the NW server.

However, if think about local backups, you may think that this machine could become your NW server.

 

[fazil1111]

I am leanig that way, my current backup server is proliant ML530 and has 6 drive bay open, i may just end up creating addtitional disk space and configure it for disk backup locally.
I was hoping to use this addtional ML570 which has large disk space becasue my incremental backup alone are over 650 GB.
Thanks for your tips.

 

[Chapter11]

If you can keep a copy of the remote data locally, and data churn on the remote side isn't too bad, consider looking into rsync.