NAS Storage Pool for DPM 2012 R2 Backup

As per documentations from Microsoft DPM doesn't support NAS Storages to be added to backup pools. ). DPM uses VSS snapshots for maintaining recovery points, therefore a network share is not supported. DPM only supports block level storage (locally attached disk, Iscsi and fibre attached disk). This can be a let down in some scenarios.

In this post you can see this amazing software Firestreamer in action that allows NAS or file shares to be used as a virtual Tape Libraries. Firestreamer is a virtual tape library (VTL) that enables the existing tape backup software to access a wide range of non-tape storage media, making possible long-term and off-site retention of data without the need for tape drives.

Full Specifications: https://www.cristalink.com/fs/hh.aspx?id=overview





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