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    BackUp device for local or colo storage

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said:

      Does every version of SC, support VM backup and restore?

      No version does, it does not talk to VMs or deal with them in any way. This is traditional backup from inside of the OS.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
        last edited by

        @DustinB3403 said:

        Is there anyway to see a demo on StorageCraft restoring a XenServer VM?

        There is nothing to see. All restores are identical as they happen above the platform. This would be similar to "seeing a VM running on XS." It looks just like any other OS, there is nothing to see.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          OK to clarify...

          Is there a demo that I can watch, of a VM being restored with SC ISO and the import of the SC backup files.

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender
            last edited by

            For example, you could boot a bare metal server off the cd and pull the restore to that server, the same as pulling it to a VM.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @DustinB3403 said:

              OK to clarify...

              Is there a demo that I can watch, of a VM being restored with SC ISO and the import of the SC backup files.

              Why a VM? VM or physical, the OS is the same.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said:

                OK to clarify...

                Is there a demo that I can watch, of a VM being restored with SC ISO and the import of the SC backup files.

                If you have any spare room on your VM host now, and a server that you're backing up with SC, you could test this inside your own environment now.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  @Dashrender If I had licensing available to test with.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    @DustinB3403 said:

                    OK to clarify...

                    Is there a demo that I can watch, of a VM being restored with SC ISO and the import of the SC backup files.

                    Why a VM? VM or physical, the OS is the same.

                    I'm sure mainly because that is the long term plan/goal to have everything virtualized. So seeing what you are planning on doing is better than seeing a sample of something that could be done, but not likely to be used by the asker.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 said:

                      @Dashrender If I had licensing available to test with.

                      What does licensing have to do with it? Unless there is some special SC license you need to do a restore?

                      Example.
                      Assuming you have 100 GB of free space on you XenServer, and you have a server that is 40 GB that is currently being backed up by SC, you could create a VM in XenServer matching the stats of the physical server, then boot that VM via the ISO and restore your own server...

                      boot it up prove it works.. then shut it down and delete it.

                      No license needed.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        They have an online video of this. Under two minutes. The video is useful but I don't know about that Steven guy doing the demo...

                        Youtube Video

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          What @Steven shows in the video that I provided is what you would see on the Console of your XenCenter for the VM that you are restoring. The Recovery ISO would be mounted and booted and this is what you would see in XC.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            You can use VirtualBot technology for testing your backups too....

                            Youtube Video

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @Steven has a tutorial series to get you up and running with ShadowProtect that you should check out. That is where I am getting these from.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403
                                last edited by DustinB3403

                                So I have to ask to ask.

                                The storage location must be browsable in a \ipaddress\ format I'm assuming.

                                Scott mentioned that it's possible to restore the virtual hardware with SC as well. Is this an additional process, or something that is just performed automatically?

                                Do you need to create the VM with the vDISKs included or does the restore process create these automatically?

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                                • StrongBadS
                                  StrongBad
                                  last edited by

                                  Seems like StorageCraft is really going to be all that you need. Keeping it simple with a single product, single vendor to turn to.

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                                  • StrongBadS
                                    StrongBad @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by StrongBad

                                    @DustinB3403 said:

                                    Scott mentioned that it's possible to restore the hardware with SC as well. Is this an additional process, or something that is just performed automatically?

                                    You would only backup the files in that case. We are talking the Dom0 here. Just the files, not the full VM.

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                                    • StrongBadS
                                      StrongBad
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                                      I am researching a good way to handle that.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @StrongBad
                                        last edited by

                                        @StrongBad said:

                                        @DustinB3403 said:

                                        Scott mentioned that it's possible to restore the hardware with SC as well. Is this an additional process, or something that is just performed automatically?

                                        You would only backup the files in that case. We are talking the Dom0 here. Just the files, not the full VM.

                                        Yes, just the files. XenServer's Dom0 is going to be "identical" each time so no point in backing that up in its entirety.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          Don't forget, as well, that you would generally do something like have XenServer on a USB stick or SD card and then you could take an image of the full thing once in a while for failover. But that is done offline so would be problematic for recent VM configurations.

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403 @StrongBad
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                                            @StrongBad ok but backing up Dom0 from Xenserver is different from what I'm thinking.

                                            Just for an example. I need to rebuild a VM, besides adding the CPU and Memory, and Boot media could I skip the step of adding a vDisk and let storage craft add that.

                                            Or must I add the vDisk matching what was in the original VM?

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