Hostilian Posted October 18, 2017 Share #1 Posted October 18, 2017 Morning all Just getting round to trying to sort out some backups for my LUNs.. I chose Block Level LUNs (for VSphere), which means that my LUNs are not considered 'Advanced LUNs' by Synology.. Great.. Anyway, just wondered what the best way to back these up would be. I'm currently running Hyper Backup to back up one of the LUNs and it looks like would change the volume to 'file level' if it was restored. Again, great (not). I'm wondering if there's a way to do the following.. - any way to easily snapshot or backup the LUNs so that it doesn't change the disks when I restore them.. - view the data on the block level LUNs from the synology box. - backup the LUN to the same synology box (shared folder) or backup/restore the lun to another LUN (changing the LUN type to Advanced). Many thanks H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostilian Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share #2 Posted October 18, 2017 Ok. so I'm kind of answering my own question, but I've been looking around - trying to simplify things and I've come up with the following 'plan'. I deleted my second LUN (had nothing on it) and provisioned it as a new Advanced LUN (file level), then presented it to VCenter.. Then I was able to check the option to Snapshot it (looked OK) in Snapshot replication manager.. In VCenter, I'm simply migrating all my VMs (storage only) to the new LUN.. Will see how it goes! Once done, I'll delete the original LUN and reprovision as Advanced LUN.. This should give me the capabilities I am after! Any pointers to my original query, appreciated! Cheers H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dfds Posted October 18, 2017 Share #3 Posted October 18, 2017 @Hostilian What version of DSM are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostilian Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share #4 Posted October 18, 2017 Latest version.. 6.1.3 u7 (soon to be u8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPEH Posted October 18, 2017 Share #5 Posted October 18, 2017 Have you tried using NFS based store instead of iSCSI LUNs. In my tests NFS always showed better performance with Vsphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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