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vmProtect 7 backup to USB

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Hi,

I would like to backup my ESXi host to USB drives. However, vmProtect 7 does not see the drive. I have tried both "attaching" the drive as a USB device and running the USB controller in pass-through mode and connecting the controller to the virtual machine. Neither method has worked.

This posting http://forum.acronis.com/forum/27657 indicates that although USB drives are not supported in 6, they will be supported in 7. Is this not the case?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Andrew Almond wrote:

Hi,

I would like to backup my ESXi host to USB drives. However, vmProtect 7 does not see the drive. I have tried both "attaching" the drive as a USB device and running the USB controller in pass-through mode and connecting the controller to the virtual machine. Neither method has worked.

This posting http://forum.acronis.com/forum/27657 indicates that although USB drives are not supported in 6, they will be supported in 7. Is this not the case?

Any advice would be appreciated.

esx does not really support USB disks directly

if you really want this then there are a few options

- the My Book Live editions of Western digital
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/catalog/?segment=4

- the usb station 2 of synology
http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=USB%20Station…

- or a more expensive option. but will give you more usb access within a VM so you can use anyhthing and share the usb disks or other equipment like license key dongles or virtually any usb device
Digi AnywhereUSB 2 device - 2 poorten ether , KA01G
http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb#overview
a true enterprise usb solution for within ESX. rocksolid.

or connect the usb disk to any nas or computer with a cifs share. as long as the usb disk can be accessed on the network with cifs
bad thing i have nad experiences with cifs in vmprotect 6 they seem to be better in 7. (with the GS grand father son scheme)

jan / mccs.nl

ps: on all these sb solutions it appears if the volume is ntfs they ware slow! 10mb a sec. and with fat its 30-40?

jan dijk wrote:

ps: on all these sb solutions it appears if the volume is ntfs they ware slow! 10mb a sec. and with fat its 30-40?

the disks with direct a nic in their unit the do not work all of them have 1MB/s or 2MBsec.. the synology usbstation is the second fastest the more expesive usb redirectors (Digi AnywhereUSB 2) will work on native speed. (same cost as 1 nas) but then you can swap and add disks with native usb speed

I'm currently backing up to a USB drive shared from a Windows guest. I've noticed that the speed is only about 20MB/s whereas a file copy within the guest is about 30MB/s to the drive. The USB controller is in passthrough to the guest VM so there shouldn't be much overhead. The drive is NTFS, I'm hesitant to use FAT32 because then it creates 4GB files. It seems strange that the Acronis appliance doesn't recognize USB drives if the USB controller is in passthrough because then it's like the USB drive is directly attached.

andrew, indeed using an VM as usbHBUB is the fastest method. only downside is you cannot snapshot this vm, so makign an linux vmusbHUB appliance does the trick .. thx for reminding about the Direct-IO / vt-d option