<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >Hi Jonathan,</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >First off a couple of questions:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >1) your using Scale+Protect with Tape today?</div>
<div dir="ltr" >2) your new filesystems will be within the same cluster ?</div>
<div dir="ltr" >3) What capacity are the new filesystems</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >Based on the above then:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >AFM-DR will give you the Replication that you are talking about -- please talk to your local IBM people about the limitations of AFM-DR to ensure it will work for your use case</div>
<div dir="ltr" >Scale supports snapshots - but as mentioned snapshots are not a backup of your filesystem - if you snapshot corrupt data you will replicate that to the DR location</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >If you are going to spin up new infrastructure in a DR location have you considered looking at an object store and using your existing Protect environment to allow you to Protect environment to HSM out to a Disk basked object storage pool distributed over disparate geographic locations? (obviously capacity dependent)</div>
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<div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt" >We are looking at standing up some new filesystems and management would like us to investigate alternative options to Scale+Protect. In particular, they are interested in the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt" >Replicate to a remote filesystem (I assume this is best done via AFM).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt" >Take periodic (probably daily) snapshots at the remote site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt" >The thought here is that this gives us the ability to restore data more quickly than we could with tape and also gives us a DR system in the event of a failure at the primary site. Does anyone have experience with this kind of setup? I know this is a solution that will require a fair amount of scripting and some cron jobs, both of which will introduce a level of human error. Are there any other gotchas we should be aware of?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div>
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