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Flashcopy under an IBM ESS vs EMC DMX3
We will soon be migrating from an ESS to a DMX. Currently we do nightly and weekly flashcopy backups of our production Storage groups. We use FDRInstant to flash volumes to an offline device and the dump the offline device to Tape using FDR.
Following the migration, we plan to use EMC's Flashcopy which will be called using FDRSNAP, and then dumping to tape. Anyone out have any experice with this or EMC's implementation of Flashcopy? If so, any gotcha's or lessons learned.
Thanks,
Kevin
Following the migration, we plan to use EMC's Flashcopy which will be called using FDRSNAP, and then dumping to tape. Anyone out have any experice with this or EMC's implementation of Flashcopy? If so, any gotcha's or lessons learned.
Thanks,
Kevin
Davidy8s
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January 15th, 2008 06:00
I found this thread which seems to have a small bit of relevance.
http://forums.emc.com/forums/thread.jspa?tstart=0&threadID=62636
In addition, there are 6 EMC Knowledgebase entries which mention 'FDRSNAP' and I saw it mentioned in a couple of our timefinder maintenance files (that makes sense; if there are knowledgebase entries, you can bet that we either have a fix or are working on one).
I only found 1 whitepaper which mentions flashcopy in passing. So for the 'gotchas', check out the knowledgebase entries.
Hope this helps
Dave Yates
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3riversff
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January 16th, 2008 17:00
currellj
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July 14th, 2009 02:00
I know this happened a long time ago. We moved from IBM ESS to EMC DMX3 a couple of years ago. Would you be willing to discuss any of the questions/problems etc you may have had. We also use FDRinstant to do our backups.
Davidy8s
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July 14th, 2009 06:00
http://csgateway.emc.com/primus.asp?id=emc93250 - chg'd 1/7/09
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http://csgateway.emc.com/primus.asp?id=emc212797 - created in May of '09.
I'm not seeing any new instances of issues. As I mentioned in the earlier post, the knowledgebase search turned up a few hits on known issues, and this discussion. Let's see if others turn up any helpful hints...
Best regards,
Dave Yates
EMC TSE3
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3riversff
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July 24th, 2009 07:00
Our migration from the ESS to the DMX has long since been completed. We did have a few issue's with FDRInstant that we resolved. We are currently fighting issue's with the EMC Resource Pack. The issue is now back with Engineering for the 2nd time and we are waiting to hear from them. If you wish to discuss anything regarding the migration or the resource pack issue's, let me know.
Kevin