Roberto
We having been using Commvault to back up three partitions for sometime now and after the initial toothing problems its pretty stable. This replaced our physical tape backups. I still create a monthly period end tape using the Commvault tape library. We have not done a partition restore and I'm currently wading though their documentation to get a good idea of the process. One thing I noticed is that you need sufficient storage on your restore client, be it the Linux proxy host, the IHOST, or VIOS for the images, In our case we are backing up nearly 6TB, so I'm not sure about this.
One final point is appears that Commvault restores the entire library before restoring an individual file, be it an in or out of place restore. In our case this meant over six hours to restore a production library of over 5,000 objects before we got our single file. I hope they are going to do something about this.
I hope that helps and it should give you some questions to ask
cheers Keith
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Keith Nichol
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed May 04, 2022 03:59 AM
From: Ash Giddings
Subject: Moving from IBMi Backup (using BRMS) with Data Domain Metallic and Azure for IBMi solution
Hi Roberto,
Having seen Commvault in action, I can only echo the previous replies and strongly recommend conducting a full backup, but more importantly a full recovery with Commvault. Then compare the two. Commvault certainly looks the part but from my experience IBM i seems to be very much an afterthought, whereas BRMS was designed for IBM i.
Please continue to share your experience as there is lots of interest around Commvault, especially for environments moving to the cloud.
Thanks, Ash.
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Ash Giddings
Original Message:
Sent: Tue May 03, 2022 11:49 AM
From: Roberto de Britto Goncalves Filho
Subject: Moving from IBMi Backup (using BRMS) with Data Domain Metallic and Azure for IBMi solution
H, my name is Roberto de Britto and I work with IBMi in Brazil. I will be participating in a project where we will be migrating the current Backup solution, based on BRMS and Data Domain to a solution with Comvault metallic and Azure.
This project will be led by the Commvault team and on my side we will support the setups that occur within IBMi, so I don't have much more information besides the minimum requirements for this installation within IBMi. I would like to know if anyone has had recent experience in a similar project using Metallic and IBMi and on my side my biggest concern concerns the replacement of the current backup tool (BRMS), so I was put forward. What should be the main points of attention with this backup solution change?? Any additional points to consider?
Soon I should have more information to share, but for now I consider any contribution useful to my understanding.
Obrigado!!
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Roberto de Britto Goncalves Filho
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