Excellent presentation, I have a question.. I have a client with 300 vms with the hypervisor KVM (Red Hat), do you know if there will be support for KVM?
We are trying to determine it Spectrum Protect(8.1.10) is a viable option to back up and restore Isilon data. I read something about NDMP or using CIFS/NFS backup via proxy. Can you direct me to any videos or documentation that discusses the requirements and methods to back up and restore Isilon data? Any insights you have would be appreciated. Thank you.
Hi Steve. You can backup Isilon two ways: 1. B/A client backing up CIFS/NFS shares, standard thing. This is mostly the recommended way, because Option 2 doesn't support incremental forever, and Isilon tends to be quite large, and they won't be able to do weekly/monthly fulls. Limitation: if a directory is shared both via NFS and CIFS, the backup won't capture access privileges for both protocols. 2. NDMP - Isilon uses supports NDMP v4, which is a requirement by SP (www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-hardware-and-software-requirements-ndmp-support), so it works. You may also want to have a look at the dsmISI MAGS 3rd party solution from General Storage that may...on a prospect call they claimed to have an US financial customer with 1billion files/Isilon successfully being backed up by SP in 8hours.
HI, Today, this will only work with manual intervention: The Protect server sets both available archive log paths for the Db2. So, there is no free path for the SPP based log backup. You can change the setting when you login to the Db2 and unset the archive log path and SPP will be able to protect this database. But, when you restart the server the configuration will be overwritten to default again and SPP fails.
@@TSMevangelist thanks for your response. One more question. When spectrum protect plus protects the database it will be a lvm or file system level snapshot backup. Whereas if I use spectrum protect it can backup db2 as a logical file backup. Is my understanding correct. Spectrum protect plus does not have the ability to do a logical backup like node.db.001 file you know that is created issuing backup command.
@@harishkumarpathangay841 This is correct. SP generally offers many more options for each type of backup than SPP. SPP does it one way, and that’s the way it works. No choice. So for instance, for DB2, SPP does a “ACS” snapshot backup. With all the underlying requirements and structure. SP on the other hand can use any of the modes and operators supported by “db2 backup db” command.
Very informative, short and accessible.
Thank you!
Thank you, very good presentation.
Excellent presentation, I have a question.. I have a client with 300 vms with the hypervisor KVM (Red Hat), do you know if there will be support for KVM?
Hi Daniel - please drop me an email at tricia@us.ibm.com - Thanks, Tricia
KVM can be protected by Spectrum Protect using SPFS.
www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=56435
We are trying to determine it Spectrum Protect(8.1.10) is a viable option to back up and restore Isilon data. I read something about NDMP or using CIFS/NFS backup via proxy. Can you direct me to any videos or documentation that discusses the requirements and methods to back up and restore Isilon data? Any insights you have would be appreciated. Thank you.
Hi Steve. You can backup Isilon two ways: 1. B/A client backing up CIFS/NFS shares, standard thing. This is mostly the recommended way, because Option 2 doesn't support incremental forever, and Isilon tends to be quite large, and they won't be able to do weekly/monthly fulls. Limitation: if a directory is shared both via NFS and CIFS, the backup won't capture access privileges for both protocols. 2. NDMP - Isilon uses supports NDMP v4, which is a requirement by SP (www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-hardware-and-software-requirements-ndmp-support), so it works. You may also want to have a look at the dsmISI MAGS 3rd party solution from General Storage that may...on a prospect call they claimed to have an US financial customer with 1billion files/Isilon successfully being backed up by SP in 8hours.
Can I use spectrum protect plus to backup my DB2 database. And use it as archive location for db2 logging.
HI, Today, this will only work with manual intervention: The Protect server sets both available archive log paths for the Db2. So, there is no free path for the SPP based log backup. You can change the setting when you login to the Db2 and unset the archive log path and SPP will be able to protect this database. But, when you restart the server the configuration will be overwritten to default again and SPP fails.
@@TSMevangelist thanks for your response. One more question. When spectrum protect plus protects the database it will be a lvm or file system level snapshot backup. Whereas if I use spectrum protect it can backup db2 as a logical file backup. Is my understanding correct. Spectrum protect plus does not have the ability to do a logical backup like node.db.001 file you know that is created issuing backup command.
@@harishkumarpathangay841 This is correct. SP generally offers many more options for each type of backup than SPP. SPP does it one way, and that’s the way it works. No choice. So for instance, for DB2, SPP does a “ACS” snapshot backup. With all the underlying requirements and structure. SP on the other hand can use any of the modes and operators supported by “db2 backup db” command.
@@TSMevangelist thanks very much for your valuable clarification. Happy Christmas to you in Advance
Tricia, is the presentation file (.ppt or .pdf) itself available somewhere?
Hi, yes please send me an email and I’ll send it to you. Tricia@us.ibm.com