Thanks for the feedback.  We agree on EMC - they like to sell
hardware......  Of course they support DataDomain!

No, I have never setup a "proxy relationship" - anything you can offer
about this process would be helpful!

At this point, when it comes to any Windows users of the Isilon, we will
have to go the "setup a dumb server to act at the backup box for the CIFS
shares" like we do with lots of other EMC storage/mounts (we have one right
now running 40+ TSM node/clients purely for CIFS backups).  As for *NIX
users/mounts, no idea how they want proceed on that.

Z

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Prather, Wanda <Wanda.Prather AT icfi DOT com>
wrote:

> It's awful.
> Only saving grace in my case is that the data is mostly images and doesn't
> change much.
>
> I assume you've had experience setting up proxy relationships -
> use many proxy machines to back up the individual shares on the Isilon, so
> you can have them all working at once.
> Then back up over NFS or CIFS.
>
> I can't believe EMC is still so far behind the times that they offer no
> intelligent way to back up their NAS devices (e.g. Netapp Snapdiff or
> V7Unified imbedded TSM client).
> But then, they tell their customers that the appropriate thing to do is
> buy a second Isilon and replicate.
>
> I have never understood how that is appropriate - manual deletes and
> directory corruption replicate, too.
>
> W
>
>
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> Anyone have experience backing up an EMC Isilon and can share war-stories,
> methods, etc?
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