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REPLICATE NODE for NAS nodes would get some of this. Someone else has an RFE for that.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=74398
"PROTECT STGPOOL to the cloud" did not make the list for 2018 nor 2019.
*weeping sadness*
The headline should probably say "PROTECT STG for NDMP into CLOUD", but I cannot edit that.
To clarify from this RFE and the PMR:
* The goal is to have a local copy, plus an off-site copy
* There is no tape involved, only Azure.
* BACKUP NODE works into a CONTAINER-DIR
* PROTECT STG works to a CONTAINER-COPY
* PROTECT STG fails to a CLOUD with ANR3251E.
* PROTECT STG to a CONTAINER-DIR on a second server works.
* UPD STGRULE ignores NDMP and never fires off a tier.
We did not do a BACKUP NODE directly to a cloud pool, because we need a local copy.
According to Keith Davey, plus the september tech PPT from Tricia Jiang, that is supposed to work.
I'm assuming it does, but it doesn't get us 2 copies.
We're considering PROTECT STG to a file class that sits on a network filesystem to a different datacenter, not Azure. (NFS to Azure is not yet available; and CIFS on AIX is too old to support Azure; and CIFS on Linux was declared unsupported.)
However, long-term, we would like to be able to PROTECT STG into a cloud pool. I'm assuming that would require a new pool type of CLOUD-COPY, based on what I've seen so far.
I left out, we started at 8.1.2, but bumped up to 8.1.3 during our troubleshooting.
Hi, Del. Hope all is well.
I can back up netapp dump to containers (not not the TOCFILEs).
I can use PROTECT STGPOOL to a local copy.
I cannot use PROTECT STGPOOL to a cloud copy, local or remote.
I tried tiering this to a cloud pool, and it silently ignores the NDMP data.
I also tried replicating to a second server, but it won't send the NDMP blocks to the cloud pool.
This is Azure on AIX, though we're in progress to replatform to AIX so we can use a FILECLASS since that will also take TSM DBB.
Note that none of these restrictions affect normal baclient data.