hi,
I was recently discussing with a customer.
Their wish is to backup a Datastores files only like the folder marked red in below screenshot:
this data is not presented to VM so I did not know of a way to do this.
is there any way to backup that specific folder via a VSA backup?
or will we need to present the data in a different way?
thanks and kind regards,
Thos Gieskes.
Best answer by MichaelCapon
Hi
Since this is a SAN LUN, It will be formatted with VMware’s VMFS. - I don’t think we would be able to leverage an Agent to protect the data. - If this was an NFS Share, we could have protected it with the FileSystem/NAS Agent.
Depending on the data size, you could consider copying it to an accessible location (Linux Client or Share) and then protect it? - Perhaps the use of a daily/weekly script to copy the files out could work? (If necessary)
Best Regards,
Michael
+14Hi
The VSA method protects the VM’s and their linked files (VMX, VMDK, LOG, etc), So I suspect anything in there not linked to a VM would not be covered.
How is this Datastore presented here? (Local Disk / SAN LUN / NFS Share)
Best Regards,
Michael
+18Their request sounds hokey. Do we know what they’re trying to achieve?
Thanks,
Scott
they are trying to backup the files on the datastore itself.
this includes certain logs files, and a couple of different directories they deem important.
indeed, it is a request I have never had before, but since they ask i thought i would look at the possibility.
but I believe that the answer
just seemed like he still wanted to reply, but realize now i did not tag him, so he probably missed it.
kind regards,
Thos Gieskes
+14Hi
Since this is a SAN LUN, It will be formatted with VMware’s VMFS. - I don’t think we would be able to leverage an Agent to protect the data. - If this was an NFS Share, we could have protected it with the FileSystem/NAS Agent.
Depending on the data size, you could consider copying it to an accessible location (Linux Client or Share) and then protect it? - Perhaps the use of a daily/weekly script to copy the files out could work? (If necessary)
Best Regards,
Michael
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