Virtualization and Disaster Planning
The core of disaster planning is the same whether you’re running SBS virtualized or on physical hardware. The five steps described in the beginning of this chapter are almost exactly the same. But there are differences when dealing with virtualized SBS. The two biggest differences to address are:
No USB drive support inside the child partition
Hardware independence
What do these differences mean for disaster planning? A few differences in the mechanics of backups and restores, primarily, with a possible change in the products used.
No USB Support
The lack of USB support inside the child partition is a limitation that can be addressed in several ways. The first way is to only worry about running backups from the ...
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