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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I am used to a SCALE solution with space management to a tape
tier.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Files can not be migrated unless they are backed up.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Once migrated and are a stub file they are not backed up as
a stub, and they are not excluded from backup.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We used the Spectrum Protect BA client, not mmbackup.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We have a new SCALE solution with COS, setup with TCT.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I am expecting it to operate in the same way.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Files can’t be migrated unless backed up.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Once migrated they are a stub and a don’t get backed up again.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We are using mmbackup.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I migrated files before backup was setup.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">When backup was turned on, it pulled the files back.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The migration policy was set to migrate files not accessed
for 2 days. All data met this requirement.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Migrations is set to run every 15 minutes, so was pushing
them back quite quickly.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The cluster was a mess of files going back and forth from
COS.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">To stop this I changed the policy to 14 days.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I set mmbackup to exclude migrated files.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Things calmed down.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I have now almost run out of space on my hot tier, but anything
I migrate will expire from backup.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The statement below is a bit confusing.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">HSM and TCT are completely different.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">I thought TCT was for cloud, and HSM for tape?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Both can exist in a cluster but operate on different areas.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This suggest to have mmbackup work with data migrated to a
cloud tier, we should be using HSM not TCT?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Can mmbackup with TCT do what HSM does?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.0.5?topic=ics-interoperability-transparent-cloud-tiering-other-spectrum-scale-features">https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.0.5?topic=ics-interoperability-transparent-cloud-tiering-other-spectrum-scale-features</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Spectrum Protect (TSM)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">For the file systems that are managed by an HSM system, ensure that hot data is backed up to TSM by using the </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Mono";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">mmbackup</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> command,
and as the data gets cooler, migrate them to the cloud storage tier. This ensures that the </span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Mono";color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">mmbackup</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"IBM Plex Sans",sans-serif;color:#161616;letter-spacing:.1pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> command
has already backed up the cooler files that are migrated to the cloud.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone set something up similar?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kindest regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Paul Ward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">TS Infrastructure Architect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Natural History Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T: 02079426450<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E: <a href="mailto:p.ward@nhm.ac.uk">
<span style="color:#0563C1">p.ward@nhm.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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