Background;
We have two 3Par systems with some remote copy LUN's configured as a failover source if the primary site drops, there are regular snapshots on the remote copy & obviously read only snapshots at this point.
My issue is;
I'm currently struggling to explain to my dept head why Veeam doesn't allow us to use the 3Par RemoteCopy LUN snapshot as a source for our Veeam backups!
In my understanding it requires a new 3par snap on the live volume to allow truncation and application aware functions to provide a working restorable backup!
Can you just confirm as I'm hitting my head against a wall trying to explain that Veeam uses it's own storage snapshot,
not the pre-existing snaps on the vol & a RO snap would not be application aware capable even if it did work like that.
Please enlighten me otherwise.. or explain how we can use the remote copy storage snaps as a backup source
Thank you for your time
