Re: SBS 2008 - To Virtualize or Not

hmmmm I can't see how a different cartridge is seen any different to the OS
than if one was plugging in a new/different USB HD. Ie say one had 5
cartridges or 5 external HD's why would these been seen differently.

Seems crazy that 2008 cannot backup to a network share either.

"Guy" wrote:

Here is the discussion that I found in the SBS 2008 newsgroup on RD 1000
devices

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To add to Sean's comment server backup needs full disk drive configured to
the backup policy to work. It assigns the disk drive a guid and stores
backups based on that. We have not tested the specific hardware you mention,
but if it works similar to IOMEGA rev drives, which is basically a disk
drive equivalent of tapes, the backup will not work. When you change the
cartridge it will try to look for a drive to which it assigned the GUID
during configuration, and will not find it and will fail. So scheduled
backups will most likely not work. You may take ad hoc backups though.

cheers
-Bodhi

"Sean Daniel [MSFT]" <seanda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Blue,

If they appear as removable disks or local disks in the system, and are
larger then 50gb, you should be able to back up to them.

Sean

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"Blue22" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Does anybody know if removeable HD cartridge drives such as the Dell
RD1000 aka. Tandberg Data RDX will work with SBS2008? I presume they
should be OK as they just appear as a drive letter, I just wondered if
anybody had tried one?

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I don't think that the same work arounds that worked in SBS 2003 will work
with SBS 2008 because SBS 2008 backup grabs the whole disk and sets it aside
for use only by backups - you will not be able to see it to share it.

What I have been unable to find out (having asked both Dell and Tandberg
Data who is the manufacturer of the drive) is whether or not there is a GUID
assigned to the external drive casing (in which case my understanding is that
the drive will not work properly with SBS 2008) or whether there is a GUID
assigned to each cartridge that is inserted into the casing (in which case
SBS 2008 backup should be able to work ok).

Guy

PS - At this stage we are using VMware ESXi as the host but I think that the
issues are identical.

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