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: [email protected] Phone: (720) 395-1246 > On May 8, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Fosburgh,Jonathan <[email protected]> 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? > The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged, > confidential, and/or protected from disclosure. This e-mail message may > contain protected health information (PHI); dissemination of PHI should > comply with applicable federal and state laws. If you are not the intended > recipient, or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, any > further review, disclosure, use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of > this message or any attachment (or the information contained therein) is > strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message > in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete all references > to it and its contents from your systems.
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