Hi Guys
One of our Customers wants to migrate some File-Servers to native CIFS on our NetApp.
All together we talk around 24TB of User-Data (Profiles, Documents, private Archives).
Putting it on one or two Volumes with Deduplication enabled and doing Snapshots for 30 Days shouldn't be the Problem there.
The special requirement we are not sure on how to implement is the monthly and yearly Backup they have on the old Servers.
Obviously they want something similar on the new Solution for legal requirements.
The two Options that come to mind are SnapVault and Snap2Tape, both I'm not quite sure how to implement.
Updating the Vault only once a month probably causes major problems with the data-transfer taking days and the vault-lag alarms driving storage admins nuts.
But when updating it daily with the normal Snapshots, maybe with only keeping one version on Vault I'm not sure it would help the monthly/yearly Jobs.
Probably we would have to configure it in separate SC-Configs with different Snapshot-Names (but the same Source and Target Volumes/FIlers), don't know how that impacts everything.
For the Snap2Tape Option we probably have to mount a Snap to a MediaServer that writes out and indexes the Data or use NDMP.
Both Options require separate Scheduling and Mechanisms for restoring Data. Anything there to integrate it directly to SnapCreator or attached Tools?
In case it helps here the current "classic" Backup Schedule in place:
Daily differential Incremental to Tape, Retention 1 Month
Weekly Full Backup to Tape, Retention 1 Month
Monthly Full Backup to Tape, Retention 1 Year
Yearly Full Backup to Tape, Retention 10 Years
Thanks for any suggestion
BR Stefan