Questions tagged [block-level]
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Identifying change to disk block level
I have a problem :)
I would like to identify how much change there has been at block level to either an entire disk or a particular file.
Ideally there is a tool that runs a scan on a disk or a file and produces "fingerprints" for each block and…
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block level vs. file level cloning?
I've always been a block level kinda guy but I'm interested in hearing some real world experiences with file level cloning. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages as well as what tools work the best.
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Block-level raw partition backup for Linux?
I have RAW LVM volumes I've exported as a snapshot from a Falconstor/EMC Symmetrix virtual SAN appliance. Upon these logical volumes are Xen virtual guest servers which are present to a backup server (Linux box with netbackup client) when we mask…
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How might I estimate size of changed blocks on a system over 24 hours?
I'm going to use a block-level backup solution to backup a Hyper-V server running SBS 2008 plus two additional instances of Windows 2008. It's fairly lightweight in terms of relative use. Total file sharing size is only around 100GB. Size of…
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Can we mount single SAN block level storage are on two separate VMs having different OSs
We have one VM having HP-UX, on which a storage area is already mounted from SAN as block level vxfs.
We need to share the same storage area on another VM in real-time read-only mode but we can only use Linux or Windows for this one.
Can we do that?…
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