How to achieve LAN Free Physical backups (4033117)

vRanger physical backups are performed using the direct-to-target architecture. Depending on how the source server is connected to the repository, this can result in network backups or LAN-Free backups.

To configure  LAN Free physical backups:

• Provision storage to be used as a repository within your SAN environment.
• Presented this provisioned storage to the source server.
• Configure the provisioned storage within your source server.
• Format the provisioned storage if necessary.
• Create a Share within the new drive for the vRanger server to access.
• Add the newly created share as a repository within vRanger.
• Configure your backup task to use this newly created repository.

For backing up physical machines, vRanger uses a physical backup client that transmits backup data directly to the repository. You should no longer see any backup traffic go over the network.

Note: This repository should be configured so that the LUN can be easily presented to another machine or directly to the vRanger host if a full restore of the source server is necessary.