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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 17, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

Abiloty to backup Spectrum Protect Database to Cloud

With the movement to cloud based storage, Spectrum protect needs to be able to back up its database to cloud storage to allow local restore of the entire database for DR.

This could be required where:
1. Customer has single SP server, and no targer replication server and no tape libraries.
2. Customer has an SP server where there has been a database corruption at one site, but the data is OK so simply needs a database restore.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 20, 2020

    This was delivered in Spectrum Protect 8.1.10.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 10, 2018

    Note that DB2 supports writing directly to S3 and Softlayer protocols.
    Allowing TSM/SP to configure that would be the key here.

    Azure support in DB2 is not available; though there is an RFE for that.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 15, 2017

    Ditto. Cloud and containers are basically a file class. We should be able to DEFINE DEVC DEVT=CLOUD.

    From there, we should be able to set the container name (server_FOOBAR_DRM instead of a non-descript hex UID).

    From there, we should be able to do PREPARE, BACKUP DEVC, BACKUP VOLHIST, and BACKUP DB.

    The main issue there is including the access key, which needs to not be in cleartext. That precludes setting DRMPLANPREFIX and server options to URLs. Usually, an access key can be re-issued if lost, so it should not be super critical during DSMSERV RESTORE DB. We could just specify either on CLI, or in a text file.

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