This document is intended to facilitate the solution for Safeguarded Copy for cyber resiliency and logical air gap solution for IBM FlashSystem and SAN Volume Controller. The document showcases the configuration and end-to-end architecture for configuring the logical air-gap solution for cyber resiliency by using the Safeguarded Copy feature in IBM FlashSystem and IBM SAN Volume Control storage.

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Executive Summary

Scope

Prerequisites

Getting started: Cyber Resiliency Solution using Safeguarded Copy with IBM FlashSystem Arrays

Architecture for Cyber Resiliency solution using Safeguarded Copy: Lab setup

Configuring a Safeguarded Pool on IBM FlashSystem

Setting up volume groups and a Safeguarded Policy

Safeguarded backup policy

Installing and configuring IBM’s Copy Services Manager

Safeguarded Copy Backup of a production volume running an MS-SQL database

Restore/Recover of data by using immutable Safeguarded Copy backups

Restoring from a Safeguarded backup copy

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