Abstract
This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides an overview of how to use the IBM TS7620 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance Express and the Network Attached Storage (NAS) support for Linux- and UNIX-based client backup environments. The File System Interface (FSI) with NFS support helps facilitate rapid data restoration, and the IBM HyperFactor® algorithm helps maximize disk usage by eliminating data duplicates in-line from the incoming backup data streams. The TS7620 Appliance Express comes pre bundled with internal disk storage included in a customer-installable, ready-to-run configuration. The ProtecTIER system can be integrated into an existing backup solution, and provides deduplication when saving files with backup solutions such as IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker, and IBM i Backup and Recovery and Media Services (BRMS).
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This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides an overview of how data backup and restore processes can be speeded up by using the IBM TS7620 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance Express and the Network Attached Storage (NAS) support for Linux- and UNIX-based client backup environments. The File System Interface (FSI) with NFS support helps facilitate rapid data restoration, and the IBM HyperFactor® algorithm helps maximize disk usage by eliminating data duplicates in-line from the incoming backup data streams. The TS7620 Appliance Express comes pre bundled with internal disk storage included in a customer-installable, ready-to-run configuration. The ProtecTIER system can be integrated into an existing backup solution, and provides deduplication when saving files with backup solutions such as IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Networker, and IBM i Backup and Recovery and Media Services (BRMS).
For more detailed information on how data backup and restore processes can be speeded up for rapid data backup and restore using NFS on IBM ProtecTIER TS7620 Deduplication Appliance Express, refer to the following IBM Redbooks publication: IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide, SG24-8025-02.
Figure 1 shows a solution that uses Tivoli Storage Manager to back up to and restore data from the self-contained disk storage in the TS7620 Deduplication Appliance Express. The TS7620 is configured for FSI-NFS, which emulates UNIX file system behavior and presents a virtualized hierarchy of file systems directories and files to UNIX-based clients using NFS protocol. The ProtecTIER Manager graphical user interface (GUI) is used to monitor the TS7620 Deduplication Express. With ProtecTIER Version 3.3, this GUI can be used to upgrade the ProtecTIER system to new code levels.
Figure 1. Using an IBM ProtecTIER TS7620 Deduplication Appliance Express with FSI support
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