Mounting VSS snapshots to remote servers

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You can use the command-line interface to mount VSS snapshots to remote servers that other users can access.

About this task

The following procedure is specific to IBM Storage® Protect Snapshot and assumes that you have at least three servers in your environment: Server A, Server B, and Server C. The backup that is created on Server A is mounted remotely to Server B.

To mount a backup remotely, the hardware provider must allow transportable snapshots. In addition, you must enable the Import VSS snapshots only when needed configuration option and remote Windows™ PowerShell.

When a backup is mounted remotely and the backup is deleted, the state of the mount point varies. The state of the mount point depends on the VSS hardware provider and storage device that is used. When a backup is mounted remotely, the backup can be deleted. When a local persistent VSS snapshot is created, a source and target volume relationship is created. The local persistent VSS snapshot is created on your storage device. In this case, when a remote mount operation occurs, the target volume is imported and mounted to the server that sends the request for the remote operation.

Procedure

  1. On Server A, use the command-line interface to complete a local backup query.
    The query shows that the backup is mounted on Server B.
  2. On Server C, use the command-line interface to complete a remote backup query of Server A.
    The query shows that the backup is mounted on Server B
  3. When you enter a mount or query command with the /remotecomputer option, enable command-line interface tracing and enable tracing on the agent. Enable tracing on both the local and remote systems by appending /tracefile=filename.trc /traceflag=service to the command.