Background

IBM's storage‑protect‑galaxy repository offers an impressive collection of blueprints, scripts, tools, and solution architectures aimed at empowering users of IBM Storage Protect. It fosters community collaboration—developers, partners, and users can share best practices and optimize data protection workflows.

Among its standout offerings is the solution built using IBM Storage Scale’s safeguarded copies or immutable snapshots functionality enhancing Cyber Resilience for IBM Storage Protect on IBM Storage Scale. This provides a comprehensive approach to safeguarding large-scale file systems through consistent, automated snapshot creation combined with efficient cataloging and retention powered by IBM Storage Protect.

🎯 Why It Matters

• Cyber Resilience: Snapshots are immutable and fast to restore, making them ideal for ransomware recovery or accidental data deletions.
• Scalability: Built to scale, with back infrastructure hosted on IBM Storage Scale environments.
• Openness: Built using bash shell scripts, easy to customize, extend, and integrate with your existing automation pipelines (e.g., Ansible, cron, etc.).
• Community Collaboration: You can contribute, raise issues, and benefit from IBM and community-developed enhancements.

🚀 Get Started

This solution is designed for developers, architects, and system admins looking to modernize their data protection strategies.

Start exploring here 👉
🔗 Snap-Protect Solution – GitHub README

🔗 Snap-Protect For Protect on Storage Scale – GitHub README

And don’t forget to check the parent repo for other powerful IBM Storage Protect assets:
🔗 IBM Storage Protect Galaxy

📝 Final Thoughts

IBM’s Snap-Protect solution for Storage Scale simplifies and strengthens data protection through a smart blend of snapshots and enterprise-grade data protection. It’s a practical, field-tested solution for building resilient backup infrastructure — simplified and automated.

Whether you’re designing your next-gen cyber resilient backup architecture or simply improving recovery SLAs, this solution is worth a close look.