[gpfsug-discuss] Snapshots for backups

Lloyd Dean LloydDean at us.ibm.com
Tue May 8 15:59:37 BST 2018


Jonathan,

First it must be understood the snap is either at the filesystems or fileset, and more importantly is not an application level backup. This is a huge difference to say Protects many application integrations like exchange, databases, etc.

With that understood the approach is similar to what others are doing. Just understand the restrictions.

Lloyd Dean
IBM
Software Storage Architect/Specialist
Communication & CSI Heartland
Email: LloydDean at us.ibm.com
Phone: (720) 395-1246

> On May 8, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Fosburgh,Jonathan <jfosburg at mdanderson.org> wrote:
> 
> We are looking at standing up some new filesystems and management would like us to investigate alternative options to Scale+Protect.  In particular, they are interested in the following:
>  
> Replicate to a remote filesystem (I assume this is best done via AFM).
> Take periodic (probably daily) snapshots at the remote site.
>  
> The thought here is that this gives us the ability to restore data more quickly than we could with tape and also gives us a DR system in the event of a failure at the primary site.  Does anyone have experience with this kind of setup?  I know this is a solution that will require a fair amount of scripting and some cron jobs, both of which will introduce a level of human error.  Are there any other gotchas we should be aware of?
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