Its my understanding that all you can really do it start to backup to the data domain and when the backups on the grid expire, they will free up the space. I have not found any other way to do it. If you do run across anything, let me know.
That's my understanding as well, I just hoping for some other "feature" that I didn't know about. Other SW solutions have something that is useful in the scenario I described, I'm surprised that Avamar doesn't. I've done this with NW, and CV in the past leveraging process or commands built into the SW.
It's not currently possible to replicate backup data from an Avamar back-end to a Data Domain back-end.
It's possible to replicate the data for Avamar / Data Domain integrated backups from an old Data Domain system to a new one but I would strongly encourage you to work with support on this.
I think the problem is that when you store data on the Avamar Grid, it is stores in "Avamar" format. But when avamar stores data on Data Domain is stores it in DD boost format. I still think that it should not be impossible, but the process would be very intense, it would basically have to "Restore" all the backups and re-back it up to the DD. I am not sure if Avamar is planning to add anything like this or not.
In Comm Vault or Net worker, you could basically do a disk copy to "move" the data.
As has been pointed out previously it is not possible to do this via replication I.E. replicate a GSAN backup to a DD on the same or different Avamar system.
However, there is a way to make a copy of a backup from Avamar-A GSAN to Avamar-B with DD and have this copy be stored in the DD. The process involves the same one used for tapeout only now rather than sending the rehydrated data to a tape backup the process now sends it to Avamar-B's DD. Since the process is similar to tapeout it cannot act on every days backups as it would take too long but is suitable for monthly or perhaps weeklies time permitting. Various plugins are supported.
The latest version of ADMe is used to accomplish this which manages the process end-to-end without the need for any manual intervention.
I'm looking to keep this within the same Avamar system, just moving data from DDa to DDb. According to Ian this is possible with the help of support. Thank you Ian and everybody else for your responses.
sconstable
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September 23rd, 2014 13:00
Its my understanding that all you can really do it start to backup to the data domain and when the backups on the grid expire, they will free up the space. I have not found any other way to do it. If you do run across anything, let me know.
ScottDB1
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September 23rd, 2014 14:00
That's my understanding as well, I just hoping for some other "feature" that I didn't know about. Other SW solutions have something that is useful in the scenario I described, I'm surprised that Avamar doesn't. I've done this with NW, and CV in the past leveraging process or commands built into the SW.
ionthegeek
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September 23rd, 2014 16:00
It's not currently possible to replicate backup data from an Avamar back-end to a Data Domain back-end.
It's possible to replicate the data for Avamar / Data Domain integrated backups from an old Data Domain system to a new one but I would strongly encourage you to work with support on this.
sconstable
60 Posts
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September 23rd, 2014 16:00
I think the problem is that when you store data on the Avamar Grid, it is stores in "Avamar" format. But when avamar stores data on Data Domain is stores it in DD boost format. I still think that it should not be impossible, but the process would be very intense, it would basically have to "Restore" all the backups and re-back it up to the DD. I am not sure if Avamar is planning to add anything like this or not.
In Comm Vault or Net worker, you could basically do a disk copy to "move" the data.
mradamk
215 Posts
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September 23rd, 2014 17:00
As has been pointed out previously it is not possible to do this via replication I.E. replicate a GSAN backup to a DD on the same or different Avamar system.
However, there is a way to make a copy of a backup from Avamar-A GSAN to Avamar-B with DD and have this copy be stored in the DD. The process involves the same one used for tapeout only now rather than sending the rehydrated data to a tape backup the process now sends it to Avamar-B's DD. Since the process is similar to tapeout it cannot act on every days backups as it would take too long but is suitable for monthly or perhaps weeklies time permitting. Various plugins are supported.
The latest version of ADMe is used to accomplish this which manages the process end-to-end without the need for any manual intervention.
ScottDB1
19 Posts
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September 23rd, 2014 18:00
I'm looking to keep this within the same Avamar system, just moving data from DDa to DDb. According to Ian this is possible with the help of support. Thank you Ian and everybody else for your responses.