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Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jun 27 '12, 11:10

So, we have this long running issue with an application running against our SQL server. They want me to send a backup of our database to them for troubleshooting. It is 300GB+. I was just sitting thinking about creating a new volume on our SAN to hold the backup, etc. when I realized, duh! We're on Netapp and I do snapshots every night of the database using their SnapManager for SQL product. I can just mount the snapshot LUN on my PC via iSCSI and copy it to the external drive. No extra space required!

I love Netapp. Plus, I realized I hadn't been backing up those LUNs to tape for weeks at the same time because they were new and I hadn't included them in the backup selection. DOH!

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NetApp cool, but licensing is major $$$. Taken the next step and done up Enterprise SSD -- nm - budice Jun 27, 11:12 1
- It is one of those platforms that continually amazes me in the things I can do with storage (cloning, snapshots, etc) that are non-intuitive in the - oblique Jun 27, 11:15
*blank gaze* nm -- nm - groiny Jun 27, 11:11

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