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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 29, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Backup of TSM / Spectrum Protect Directory Container Pools

The new directory container storage pools are unable to perform migrations to other storage pools.

This can be "hacked", if you will, by backing up the directory container files themselves to another storage pool that can migrate to tape devices. However, this is unsupported and difficult to coordinate in a DR-safe way.

If the new directory containers had the ability to migrate to other storage pools *without* losing the advantages of the new deduplication and compression systems built into directory container pools, these would allow for massively scalable disk pools without the worry of disaster should that disk pool fail.

Replication doesn't solve the issue if customer requirements require an offline copy of data. Rehydrating the data to move to tape removes all of the benefits of the new storage containers.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 20, 2020

    Tiering to both tape and cloud have been released.

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 4, 2017

    I was not aware of this feature, I believe this covers the missing features needed for safe operation. Thanks for the update!

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2016

    Are you aware of the new COPY TO TAPE function for directory containers delivered in version 7.1.7?

    http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.7/srv.common/r_techchg_srv_copycont_717.html

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