Re: Duplicating backup to Amazon S3

Hi,

We have a solution too, and you could duptap the tapes to an Image Catalog and upload to S3 really fast (I suggest WASABI to avoid EGRESS charges).

And you can upload using a simple CL, but when you need to automate restores that can be complex. That’s the reason to use commercial products like BRMS.

If you want to build a DIY solution you could use a Linux server to upload you Virtual Tape Image Catalog, upload using FTP, compress on the Linux server using ZSTD (really fast) and upload files at the same time with some multipart tuning similar to this:

[default]
region = us-south
output = json
s3 =
max_concurrent_requests = 20
max_queue_size = 10000
multipart_threshold = 256MB
multipart_chunksize = 128MB


Note: You can also use AWS CLI and ZSTD from your IBM, just installing Python3 and ZSTD with YUM or ACS and running on your SSH session (need to adjust the PATH):

Compress:

cd /IMGCLG
zstd *

pip3 install awscli

Once installed I use an alias with BASH, in this case to connect with WASABI (same protocol used on IBM Cloud Object Storage or AWS S3):

alias ws3='aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://s3.us-central-1.wasabisys.com --profile wasabi'

And now I can connect to the cloud with easy PASE commands:

ws3 ls s3://mybucket/ <s3://mybucket/>
ws3 cp /IMGCLG/ s3://ibmi01/20221006/ <s3://ibmi01/20221006/> —recursive

Good luck!

Diego E. Kesselman
diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx

El 06/10/2022, a las 12:21, Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

<vendor>
We have products that allow you to send files to Google Drive or Microsoft
OneDrive/Office 365. I personally use it for my backups, but of course I
don't have terabytes of data, so the bottleneck would be the connection and
the size of data you're backing up.

www.bvstools.com/g4g.html
www.bvstools.com/g4ms.html

</vendor>

Of course, if you do have terabytes of data, physical storage may be good
even if you find a cloud solution.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:14 PM Dean Eshleman via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

We currently do backups to a Data Domain VTL using BRMS. Our weekly
backup we duplicate to physical tape using the DUPMEDBRM command. Our
management would like to get rid of the physical tape and wondered if we
could duplicate the backup to Amazon S3 or another cloud storage option. I
assume this is possible. I ran across the "Cloud Storage Solutions for I"
product. I did notice the limitation of 2TB per day. I guess it would
also depend on our internet connection. Is that the product we would need
to do this? Are there other options? Currently, I'm not sure how big our
backup is. I'll check into that. We are on 7.3 and up to date on PTF's as
of July this year. TIA

Dean Eshleman
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