Isilon SyncIQ to cloud?

Hello Enavarro,

Admin guide 8.0  specifies that you can restore data from cloud you check for SyncIQ deep copy on pg 451.

As per guide it says

You can create a SyncIQ policy that restores full files rather than SmartLink files when copying data from the primary (source) cluster to a secondary (target) cluster. When you create a SyncIQ policy, you can modify the Deep Copy for CloudPools setting. The default setting is Deny, which means that, during a SyncIQ operation, SmartLink files are replicated to the target cluster. Alternatively, you can select either the Allow or Force option for deep copy. When you select Allow, SyncIQ still replicates SmartLink files to the target cluster unless there is a SmartLink version mismatch, in which case the full file data is retrieved from the cloud and replicated. When you specify Force for deep copy, CloudPools retrieves and copies full file data from the cloud for all SmartLink files affected by the SyncIQ policy, and replicates the full files to the target cluster.

I hope this give you and path to test out things. Also check features in SyncIQ deep copy.

Thanks

Chughh

Thank you both for your replies.  However let me clarify - what I am asking is if it is possible to leverage SyncIQ to make a copy to a cloud target without having to copy to a second Isilon cluster.  My understanding is that the Deep Copy feature in Cloudpools refers to a SyncIQ operation between two Isilon clusters.  In my scenario I have a single Isilon cluster and I want to make a copy of the data in the cloud while still keeping the original data on the Isilon.  That is, I want to do a SyncIQ operation from the Isilon cluster directly to the cloud. I hope that makes things clearer.

Eddy

Let's keep in mind that Cloudpool'ed files can ONLY be referenced

through the SmartLink stubs in a OneFS instance,

which means there cannot exist a real "deep" = self-contained copy

from an Isilon cluster into the cloud.

The closest you can get with a single Isilon cluster is the

single-cluster variant of your two-clusters concept:

Make use of the fact that SyncIQ can do incremental copies

from a cluster into another folder on the same cluster.

if your datasets grow or change slowly over time -- read: small increments --

then a two-phase (SyncIQ -> CloudPools)  approach on a

single cluster can be feasible.

Makes sense?

-- Peter

Forgot.... of course the SmartLink stubs

should be backed up outside the cluster.

Any supported NDMP solution will do;

just a small backup capacity will be needed for the stubs.

-- Peter