so as this does not work and other things like SMTape require a real tape-drive, which I don't have how else can I do a baseline without stressing the WAN line for weeks/months?
Is it possible to do it like this:
On the secondary site with slow wan connection:
- a volume for VMware datastore (NFS) contains a few VMs -> Copy the files inside the datastore to a USB drive
- a volume for CIFS fileshares contains some files/folders -> Copy the files/folders to a USB drive
On the pirmary site:
- create two volumes for SnapVault relation with the same size as the source (secondary site)
- then import all the files / folders to the volumes from the USB drive
Can I use that data then to initialize SnapVault or is this data not "valid" and needs to be fully overwritten by SnapVault process?
Thanks!