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Before you say search the forums or the net, yes, I've done that, a lot. My question isn't much about asking how to do it but more about which way might be better.
So, I have two FN 9.3 boxes set up, on the same local LAN segment.
Both have fibre channel cards installed and each is connected to an IBM BladeCEnter so the blades can access either FN box LUNs I've created and shared. The LUNs are zvol.
What I'd like to do is to have daily snapshots of the vms running off the storage on FN #1.
I see the VMware-Snapshot function but was also wondering about using a sync method from FN#1 to FN#2.
The key to my question being that while I'd like to backup, I would prefer not having to copy every single byte of data over to FN#2 repeatedly to have recent backups. That would take up a lot of never ending network bandwidth so I'm trying to find the most efficient way of doing this.
So, I have two FN 9.3 boxes set up, on the same local LAN segment.
Both have fibre channel cards installed and each is connected to an IBM BladeCEnter so the blades can access either FN box LUNs I've created and shared. The LUNs are zvol.
What I'd like to do is to have daily snapshots of the vms running off the storage on FN #1.
I see the VMware-Snapshot function but was also wondering about using a sync method from FN#1 to FN#2.
The key to my question being that while I'd like to backup, I would prefer not having to copy every single byte of data over to FN#2 repeatedly to have recent backups. That would take up a lot of never ending network bandwidth so I'm trying to find the most efficient way of doing this.