Does Backup Professional support by SAN or switched fabric SAN environment?
Backup Professional can backup SANS using one of two techniques. First and fastest is to backup a SAN logical unit using its built-in and fast raw device partition backup features. A special profile is created to backup each SAN logical unit or set of units. This SAN backup profile turns on the double buffering feature of the backup engine. This forces a multi-process, multi-threaded backup using shared memory and double buffers for the maximum possible speed. Finally, this profile is then scheduled so that it occurs at regular intervals. This method allows bare metal recovery of the SAN disk sub-system and is the fastest possible backup and restore. Backup Professional can backup a SAN system if the SAN driver is running under one of the nine server platforms that we support. Many such systems run a Solaris, BSD or Linux version of Unix under the hood. If the SAN system is running Linux as its primary operating system, you can install the Backup Professional server and get a native ba
