Re: Where do I learn about SAN backup?

Thanks, Steve, this is pretty important stuff.

I have two completely different business objectives: one is scheduled complete system backup with multiple physical copies, while the other is backing up production data nightly and in addition to the physical backup also refreshing a copy on the development partition.

It seems like there are a lot of capabilities here with the FlashCopy, although it also looks like you need enough "scratch" disk to completely restore that flash copy.

IBM Lab Services has a product called Full System Flash Copy toolkit, which will automate the process of quiesce the LPAR. Taking the flash copy,mounting the flash on a temp LPAR, runs the backup from the temp LPAR and then powers off the temp LPAR and stops the flash copy.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1010924

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20i%20Advanced%20Copy%20Services/page/Full%20System%20Flashcopy%20(FSFC)

From: Joe Pluta<mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 3:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Where do I learn about SAN backup?

I'm hearing that SAN storage allows us to do a very fast "snapshot" of
the system and then backup from that snapshot. It's supposed to make
the backup less intrusive. Is anyone doing something like this?

Thanks in advance!


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