[AIX] Raw device support

[zsoos]

Hi,

I understand there's some form of raw device support in Veeam for Linux, but is there any for AIX? Does Veeam support the backup and restore of raw logical volumes? Have found nothing saying either way. Thank you.

Z

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

I understand there's some form of raw device support in Veeam for Linux

do you maybe have a source for that statement? The Veeam Agent for Windows supports block-based backup for the file systems listed in the user guide plus file-based backup.

Does Veeam support the backup and restore of raw logical volumes?

No. Veeam Agent for AIX is file-based backup.

Question: what is the use-case or background of the question (just in case you ask for Oracle ASM disks)?

Best regards,
Hannes

[zsoos]

Hi Hannes,

Thanks for your reply.

Turns out it was a misunderstanding. We have a customer with lots of raw devices and we believed they would need backing up. But now it's not the case, so the question has become irrelevant. Thanks for your time.

Z

[HannesK]

hmm okay, what is on these raw devices? How can he access the data? Can you maybe tell us which software product is using these raw devices?

[zsoos]

The volumes in question are replicas managed by Mimix. Mimix takes a filesystem on the source side and replicates it to remote server on the logical volume level. Therefore, to avoid an interference with the data on the receiving end, the target OS is not aware of the filesystem, it only sees a raw device. Now since it is only a replica, it does not need to be backed up, backup will only happen on the source side where the filesystem is defined and mounted.

[HannesK]

thanks! yes, backup on the source side makes sense