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VCB and Local Storage

Hi - Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation/examples of how to use VCB to backup VMs stored on local storage - I can't seem to find anything regarding local storage, although I do know it is now supported.

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The only way to do vcb on local storage is VCB in LAN mode. Here you can find some information about that:

http://dsumsky.blogspot.com/2008/09/vcb-basic-usage-vm-full-backup-with.html

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The only way to do vcb on local storage is VCB in LAN mode. Here you can find some information about that:

http://dsumsky.blogspot.com/2008/09/vcb-basic-usage-vm-full-backup-with.html

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Hi,

Please seee the command below.

vcbmounter -h <your-host> -u <username> -p <password> -a <vm_identifier> -r <mount-path> -t <full backup or file backup> -m nbd -l 6

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NSITPS
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Thanks for the help.

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seniord
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VCB now supports backup of local storage via a VM using SCSI hot-add mode. See more info in the Virtual Machine Backup Guide and the following post; http://communities.vmware.com/thread/162789.

In the SCSI Hot-Add mode, you set up one of your virtual machines as a VCB proxy and use it to back up other virtual machines residing on storage visible to the ESX Server that hosts the VCB proxy virtual machine. This mode eliminates the need of having a dedicated physical machine for your VCB proxy and does not require you to expose SAN LUNs to the Windows VCB proxy.

In this mode, you can use Consolidated Backup to protect any virtual disks on any type of storage available to your ESX Server host, including NAS or local storage. The only exceptions are physical compatibility RDMs.

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