Backup Citrix Xenserver environment
Hello,
I would like to setup a backup of my Citrix Xenserver (6.0.2) environment with an LTO5 Tape Drive. As I understand for now (please correct me if I am wrong) backups of Xenserver does not work the way as backups of Hyper-V hosts work.
When I understand correctly, I have to install a agent into each virtual machine.
So my question is where to place the LTO drive. I would like to build the drive into the Xenserver host. Is this possible or do I have to use a seperate physical windows machine for this?
The second question is regarding this discussion: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/7060?destination=node%2F7060
When I need to install a agent into each virtual machine why should I compile the SNAPAPI module for the Xenserver host?
Thanks,
Sebastian

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Hello,
sounds good. My first approach will be to use a physical machine for the tape drive, later I will try to migrate to the XEN-Server with a passthrough.
Can you answer me why the other thread discusses the compilation of the driver for the Citrix Host System?
Thanks,
Sebastian
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Hi Sebastian,
In the other thread customer wanted to back up the XenServer host itself (as a physical Linux machine), rather than VMs running on it. In fact this is not supported really good - Citrix warns users that installation of 3rd party software on XenServer is not recommended.
Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager
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