Automated file distrobitionen

I helped a company that had problem with their backup situation, and didn't have a great total cost of ownership (TCO) of their file archive system that contain all original pictures they take daily.

They grow with 6 TB of new data weekly and had 400TB of total data and together with the old backup software that still run Gran father/father/son backup method (Monthly Full and Daily Incremental backups).

The full backup took more than 24 hours and the daily took more than 8 hours to before.

When they got hold of the new picture, they could then work with the picture almost direct, but manually publish the new picture on the website.

Backup was a problem, and the disk cost was always growing with no idea how to slow down that cost.

What we did was implementing a new Software Define Storage filesystem to the customer and connect the web servers to a part of the filesystem.

The filesystem is also  policy based driven, and could then automatic backup the new files incremental forever to a Backup-As-A-Service provider that are running IBM Spectrum Protect.

When a new file arrives to the filesystem (1) it ends up at a central Scale-Out Storage solution.

When the new file arrives, the filesystem will then automatic send a copy of the file to the BaaS provider. (2)

The company can then directly start working with the new and old files (3) that are on disk or tape in the same way they did before.

Both the Scale-Out Storage and the tape library are creating one single name space for the editor user.

When the user have modify and create a new picture, they will save the file to the same part of the filesystem where the web server has read access. (4) and (6)

At the same time the picture automatic will be publish it will automatic create a backup of the file to the BaaS provider.

When the original picture hasn't been read or modified less than 60 days it will automatic been moved from the disk system over to the tape library with no user interaction.

With the new solution we cut down the TCO with 40% and the growth investment with more than 80% because they can now only buy cheap tapes instead of spinning disks.