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Hi
great feature
if you intention is to support VM servers running on KVM/XEN etc, than there arre other options, for example SPFS
SPFS provides a generic universal interface to Spectrum Protect storage
SPFS is a file system for Spectrum Protect
mounting the Spectrum Protect storage as a filesystem on the VM host, enables flexibility to use almost any type of data protection tools, such as proxmox etc
browsing/storing data is easy
everyone knows how to use a file system, right?
eg
# mount -t spfs /backup
and use whatever backup command preferred to use
# ls /backup
# cp xxx /backup
etc
Data retention is easily managed from the spectrum protect backup server
data is secure as spfs act as a worm media
for more examples see:
https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=56435&lc=en