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June 18th, 2014 05:00
Atmos Archiving Solutions
Hello, I am just curious as to what everyone uses for archiving data to the cloud with Atmos. I am noticing products that say S3 are for that only and usually you cannot put in your own HTTPS address in.
I am looking for software or appliance (virtual) based products to install on a server or vmware environment but I don't really like Geodrive. To me Geodrive seems more like a desktop/laptop product. Am I way off base here? I find that when GeoDrive is used on a server it does cause confusion as it creates a second drive that shows the same data as your original drive and the issue where it appears you have not had any free disk space due to archiving (stubbing).
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June 19th, 2014 07:00
Maybe you could provide a better picture of what you're trying to accomplish with your archiving of data? I see lots of things going in your post, but I'm not sure of your goals.
If you just wish to archive data to ATMOS, you have a lot of options. First, what are you archiving? Data from NAS shares on VNX/Celerra? Files on VMware hosts? If you have VNX/Celerra, CTA (Cloud Tiering Appliance) can use ATMOS a repository and archive files there. Of course, CTA will leave a stub file, but this returns free space to your filesystem. If you're not trying to archive from VNX/Celerra, you could code your own applications with the REST API. Some applications support extensible archive solutions, so you could write your own code with object languages like Ruby or a fancy Perl script, and move data to ATMOS that way.
If you're looking for something that emulates a Windows fileshare, you might look at a software solution like StorFirst EAS, from Seven10 software. This software allows a VM to present a CIFS share that lets you write to ATMOS.
If you can provide more details, we can talk through your options!
Karl