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  • 1.  Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 5 days ago

    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





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    Daniel Larsson
    Architect
    Cristie Nordic
    Stockholm
    (4670)292-9070
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  • 2.  RE: Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 4 days ago

    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



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    Nicolás Pérez de Arenaza
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  • 3.  RE: Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 3 days ago

    Hi

    Perhaps one can use the Spictera Unified Storage to do this for you too?

    As the interface is generic?

    Bucket, VTL, file... with backend to IBM Storage Protect of course.

    Regards Tomas 



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    Tomas Dalebjörk
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  • 4.  RE: Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 3 days ago

    Thank you!



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    Daniel Larsson
    Architect
    Cristie Nordic
    Stockholm
    (4670)292-9070
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  • 5.  RE: Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 3 days ago

    Dear Daniel, 

    as per my knowledge, you have to integrate the defender with spectrum protect ,

    then you can create a pool on spectrum protect and configure the pool policy to take the backups come from IBM defender to offsite tape 

    BR 



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    Hashem Al-Qaisi
    Senior Systems Engineer
    Jordan Business Systems
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  • 6.  RE: Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 2 days ago

    Hello Daniel,

    it works, there is two how you can do it (with DP 7.2):

    - using S3 Glacier and a cold data pool: This is good for long term archive data and the data goes (over the cache pool) directly to tape. Only full copies are supported. Keep in mind that if you loose the DP cluster you can not retrieve this data anymore
    - using normal S3 and a containerpool: This is good for an airgap copy ( Cloud Archive V2) incremental forever is supported, however the data will remain in the container pool and only a copy of the containerpool can be made to tape. 

    Hopefully in DP 7.3 some improvements are made and more scenarios are possible.



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    Otto Schakenbos
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  • 7.  RE: Offloadin/storing Data Protect backups to Storage Protect to tape?

    Posted 2 days ago
    Hello Daniel,

    it works, there is two how you can do it (with DP 7.2):

    - using S3 Glacier and a cold data pool: This is good for long term archive data and the data goes (over the cache pool) directly to tape. Only full copies are supported. Keep in mind that if you loose the DP cluster you can not retrieve this data anymore
    - using normal S3 and a containerpool: This is good for an airgap copy ( Cloud Archive V2) incremental forever is supported, however the data will remain in the container pool and only a copy of the containerpool can be made to tape. 

    Hopefully in DP 7.3 some improvements are made and more scenarios are possible.




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    Otto Schakenbos
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    Original Message


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