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 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of John D. Schneider Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 9:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.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 The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Centera? From: john d <mrmelr...@comcast.net> Date: Fri, December 02, 2011 10:42 am To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU NDMP might be an option. Hopefully, you are running TSM 6.2 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 11:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Centera? Seven10 software, the Altus product. Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sachin Chaudhari Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.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. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.