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  • 1.  VMware Data Recovery: Rotate Hard Disks

    Posted Sep 20, 2010 10:48 PM

    Hello,

    VMware Data Recovery is performing automatic backups of our virtual machines to a shared folder on a NAS unit with removable drives. What I would like to do is swap the hard drive out of the NAS unit each week, as we do with our file level backups. If I do this, then I assume, for each VM, DR will compare what is on the ESXi server against what has been saved on the backup hard drive, and either do a full backup or differential. So, I cannot see why there would be any issue with rotating hard drives... What do you think?

    Thanks,

    Mike



  • 2.  RE: VMware Data Recovery: Rotate Hard Disks

    Posted Sep 21, 2010 04:54 AM

    How do you rotate the disk?

    Do you umount the share, change the NAS disk, and mount again the share?

    Andre



  • 3.  RE: VMware Data Recovery: Rotate Hard Disks

    Posted Sep 21, 2010 02:14 PM

    Is this a single drive NAS unit?

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    Shane Wendel

    VCP: vSphere 4

    VCP: VI3



  • 4.  RE: VMware Data Recovery: Rotate Hard Disks

    Posted Sep 22, 2010 01:07 AM

    Hi Everyone,

    We are using a QNAP TS-239 Pro II NAS on a gigabit network. It has two removable drives. The left one, we use with iSCSI for backups from our 3 Windows 2008 servers. The right drive is simply shared for Microsoft Networking. Each week, I power down the QNAP, swap the left disk, power it on, go to the Windows servers and ensure that they have attached to their LUNs on the QNAP... et voila, done! What I am asking is whether VMware Data Recovery will work properly if I swap the right drive. I assume that it will since it the next backup , after a swap, would simply save changes from what is on the ESXi server (as I understand it). So, what do you think about this? Any issues with swapping drives and being able to restore virtual machines as I've described?

    Thanks,

    Mike