Capacity Tier for DAS

[xorman]

We have a few years old backups that we would like to migrate to a separate repository.
Let's say I have cheaper storage for less critical data and I'm looking for a way to constantly migrate old full backups older than X days to a dedicated DAS. Kind of capacity tier for DAS.

For internal reasons all cloud solutions out of the scope at this point.

Is there a built-in way to do that?


Thanks.

[nielsengelen]

Currently the cloud tier only supports object storage so to achieve this you would need to leverage backup copy jobs.

[xorman]

Backup copy job wouldn't help in my case as I'm looking for a way to move existing backups from number of repositories to a new one.
Are there any powershell scripts available for this type of tasks?

[veremin]

You should be able to script file copy utility (robocopy or similar) to move data that falls out of the specified timeframe, but that will most likely confuse backup server - its configuration database will still have references to restore points that have been already moved to different location. Thanks!

[xorman]

That's unfortunate.

I hope there is something more advance than just file copy utility.


Thanks for your response.

[Gostev]

Regular file systems will not scale for our needs, so DAS is not really an option outside of small environments (we actually do have the code that enables leveraging regular file systems for Capacity Tier, we used that internally for dev labs before while S3 client was being implemented).

Did you consider putting object storage on top of your DAS? They are plenty of free and commercial solutions for this.

[xorman]

Thanks, Gostev
It's actually a fresh idea.

I'll take a look on object storage solutions for local storage.

[jmmarton]

Take a look at Minio, an open source S3 object storage solution.

https://www.minio.io/

You can run it on either Windows or Linux and present it as S3 object storage to VBR to then use any on-premises storage for the Capacity Tier. I haven't set it up in my lab yet, but a few colleagues have in order to demonstrate Capacity Tier without having an Azure Blob or S3 account.

Joe

[Gostev]

Linux only with Minio please, see the sticky compatibility list