Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi Daniel,

You can chain Storage Protect to Data Protect for archival purposes.
To offload backup pieces from Data Protect to store them for long term in Storage Protect, and release space in the cluster for current activities.

In reply to your question:
My experience is that is pretty much easy to configure. You can make it work in a few hours.
You have to size direct access storage pools in Storage Protect to act as a landing zone for uploads, and also for downloads. Size will depend on your workloads.
Once configured, you relay on Data Protect Archive Policies, that will perform the Archival to Storage Protect.
And have in mind that retrieval from there will take time.

Go for it.

Regards

Nicolás.

Nicolás Pérez de Arenaza

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi Daniel,

You can chain Storage Protect to Data Protect for archival purposes.
To offload backup pieces from Data Protect to store them for long term in Storage Protect, and release space in the cluster for current activities.

In reply to your question:
My experience is that is pretty much easy to configure. You can make it work in a few hours.
You have to size direct access storage pools in Storage Protect to act as a landing zone for uploads, and also for downloads. Size will depend on your workloads.
Once configured, you relay on Data Protect Archive Policies, that will perform the Archival to Storage Protect.
And have in mind that retrieval from there will take time.

Go for it.

Regards

Nicolás.

Nicolás Pérez de Arenaza

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

hello team,

i fount the procedure bellow , but to my understanding this creates full copies of backups to tape.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-defender/base?topic=sddp-archiving-storage-defender-data-protect-data-storage-protect-tape

Tips and limitations:

• Use the archive to tape feature only for monthly archives to tape. Frequent, full archives to tape are not recommended since incremental functionality is not available.

it is the same procedure that i have used to keep long term SPP VM backups to tape
what i would like to ask if there is way to migrate old data from Storage Defender data protect to Storage protect using tiering by age

for example all backups stored on Storage Defender Data Protect older than 2 month should be migrated to Storage Protect Pools (either tape or disk)
i haven't found anything about it

thanks

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Hi Emmanouil,
as Daniel mentioned above, the Data Protect cloud archive v2 supports incremental archive to S3 standard tier external targets. SP is a supported external target for this. Find the reference documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7232490. If a disk pool works for you in this context, this can be an option.
When you register SP as an external target for standard tier use the purpose "Archival" and storage type "S3Compatible", storage class "Regular". It is recommended to set the garbage collection to "Storage Optimized" for on-prem targets. Archival format will default to "Incremental Forever".
Then add the archive option to your Data Protect policy. You can define frequency and retention there for the archive operation in a way that fits your requirements.

hello team,

i fount the procedure bellow , but to my understanding this creates full copies of backups to tape.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-defender/base?topic=sddp-archiving-storage-defender-data-protect-data-storage-protect-tape

Tips and limitations:

• Use the archive to tape feature only for monthly archives to tape. Frequent, full archives to tape are not recommended since incremental functionality is not available.

it is the same procedure that i have used to keep long term SPP VM backups to tape
what i would like to ask if there is way to migrate old data from Storage Defender data protect to Storage protect using tiering by age

for example all backups stored on Storage Defender Data Protect older than 2 month should be migrated to Storage Protect Pools (either tape or disk)
i haven't found anything about it

thanks

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Good day Dominic

thank you for your prompt reply.
it s not clear to me if the solution proposed works as tiering of data to a lower cheaper tier

for example do i have the option to migrate all daily backups stored on Storage Defender Data Protect older than 2 month and send them to Storage Protect Pools (either tape or disk) ?

and if yes, will this reduce the overall license ?
for example instead of having 3 months of backups stored on the DP Cluster to have one month of backups stored on the DP cluster and 2 months older daily backups on another tier like SP tape, S3 storage etc ?

thanks again

Hi Emmanouil,
as Daniel mentioned above, the Data Protect cloud archive v2 supports incremental archive to S3 standard tier external targets. SP is a supported external target for this. Find the reference documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7232490. If a disk pool works for you in this context, this can be an option.
When you register SP as an external target for standard tier use the purpose "Archival" and storage type "S3Compatible", storage class "Regular". It is recommended to set the garbage collection to "Storage Optimized" for on-prem targets. Archival format will default to "Incremental Forever".
Then add the archive option to your Data Protect policy. You can define frequency and retention there for the archive operation in a way that fits your requirements.

hello team,

i fount the procedure bellow , but to my understanding this creates full copies of backups to tape.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-defender/base?topic=sddp-archiving-storage-defender-data-protect-data-storage-protect-tape

Tips and limitations:

• Use the archive to tape feature only for monthly archives to tape. Frequent, full archives to tape are not recommended since incremental functionality is not available.

it is the same procedure that i have used to keep long term SPP VM backups to tape
what i would like to ask if there is way to migrate old data from Storage Defender data protect to Storage protect using tiering by age

for example all backups stored on Storage Defender Data Protect older than 2 month should be migrated to Storage Protect Pools (either tape or disk)
i haven't found anything about it

thanks

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson

Good day Dominic

thank you for your prompt reply.
it s not clear to me if the solution proposed works as tiering of data to a lower cheaper tier

for example do i have the option to migrate all daily backups stored on Storage Defender Data Protect older than 2 month and send them to Storage Protect Pools (either tape or disk) ?

and if yes, will this reduce the overall license ?
for example instead of having 3 months of backups stored on the DP Cluster to have one month of backups stored on the DP cluster and 2 months older daily backups on another tier like SP tape, S3 storage etc ?

thanks again

Hi Emmanouil,
as Daniel mentioned above, the Data Protect cloud archive v2 supports incremental archive to S3 standard tier external targets. SP is a supported external target for this. Find the reference documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7232490. If a disk pool works for you in this context, this can be an option.
When you register SP as an external target for standard tier use the purpose "Archival" and storage type "S3Compatible", storage class "Regular". It is recommended to set the garbage collection to "Storage Optimized" for on-prem targets. Archival format will default to "Incremental Forever".
Then add the archive option to your Data Protect policy. You can define frequency and retention there for the archive operation in a way that fits your requirements.

hello team,

i fount the procedure bellow , but to my understanding this creates full copies of backups to tape.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-defender/base?topic=sddp-archiving-storage-defender-data-protect-data-storage-protect-tape

Tips and limitations:

• Use the archive to tape feature only for monthly archives to tape. Frequent, full archives to tape are not recommended since incremental functionality is not available.

it is the same procedure that i have used to keep long term SPP VM backups to tape
what i would like to ask if there is way to migrate old data from Storage Defender data protect to Storage protect using tiering by age

for example all backups stored on Storage Defender Data Protect older than 2 month should be migrated to Storage Protect Pools (either tape or disk)
i haven't found anything about it

thanks

Hi,
Storing backup data from Data Protect to Storage Protect is supported. What are your experiences with also keeping a copy on tape?

Best regards,
Daniel Larsson