There are 2 reasons to backup a Centera:
1. If you only have one Centera and feel that maybe 1 copy of an archive is not
safe.
2. If you do not believe replication is a good way to spread around data
corrupted by an application.
Systems do fail due to inside and outside forces so I think it is a good idea
to keep 2 copies of data in different locations.
Applications do have the ability to corrupt and delete data, tape, or a tape
like substance, is a good way to keep an application from getting to all of the
copies.
Andy Huebner
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
John D. Schneider
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 9:16 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Centera?
Greetings,
No disrespect intended, but you are missing the fundamental
rationale behind the Centera. It is an archiving platform, not a
primary storage platform. It is intended to be the last platform the
data ever resides on. It has replication capabilities, so you can keep
another copy off-site on another Centera for redundancy purposes, but
since the data on it should be archive data, you should not be backing
it up, and you should not need to. You don't need to back up an
archive, since it is static data that is no longer being used for
production processing.
That also means that you should not be sending data to it that you
intend to use for primary production applications. It is a good
platform for email archive, or application data that is no longer being
used on a daily basis, but might be needed at a later date for legal
discovery or other reasons.
EMC has had the Centera platform around for many years, and they
always try to steer people away from trying to use the Centera for
purposes outside of it's intended design.
Best Regards,
John D. Schneider
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Centera?
From: john d <mrmelrose AT COMCAST DOT NET>
Date: Fri, December 02, 2011 10:42 am
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
NDMP might be an option. Hopefully, you are running TSM 6.2
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Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 11:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Centera?
Seven10 software, the Altus product.
Andy Huebner
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Sachin Chaudhari
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:25 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Centera?
Hello,
How to take EMC centera backup? One way of doing it through additional
EMC
Module CBRM with TSM. But CBRM was end of life product,
Pl suggest any alternate way of doing Centera backup on TSM-TAPE without
CBRM.?
Regards,
Sachin C.
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