Veeam to Tape?

[bremen1874]

I'm looking at backup options for a server running Hyper-V on Server 2012 R2. It's the only Hyper-V server, and that isn't likely to change in the near future.

Is Veeam writing to LTO considered to be a sensible option?

My plans to test it ground to a halt when I realised that the LTO drive I had available is U160 SCSI rather than SAS. Not a problem in itself, but the only PCIe SCSI card I have available (LSI20320IE IIRC) doesn't appear to be supported by Server 2012 R2.

 

[ace-rimmer]

a server 2008 driver mite work with the 320 scsi card?

 

[Ploppy2k3]

pretty much all 2008 X64 storage drivers for SCSI work well with Server 2012. I don't recall us having one that we couldn't get to work with either 2008 X64 or a Windows 7 X64 driver.