Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack (FilesX) Technical Overview

1. Tivoli Storage Manager Fast Back (FilesX) Technical OverviewMay 5th 2009SYSTOR 2009 Eran Raichsteineranra@il.ibm.com

2. Agenda • FilesX Company Overview (TSM FastBack) • TSM FastBack Technology Overview • Protection Highlights • Recovery Highlights • TSM FastBack Roadmap • Multi Platform Support • De-Duplication Highlights

3. FilesX overview Founded in 2000 Privately held company with 44 employees Headquartered in Newton, MA Development lab in Haifa, Israel 100+ customers across major segments including government, finance, healthcare, education and manufacturing Existing IBM technology partnerships

4. FastBackServer Block Level Incremental Forever Production Disk • Frequent Block Level Incremental snapshots can take only seconds or minutes to complete • Bandwidth efficient data movement makes frequent snapshots and CDP practical • Very little impact to the production server or the network • Block level incremental is used for application protection as well as protecting files • Excellent performance Application or File server • Incremental backups are Block-Level, not file-level. • Only the blocks that have changed since the last incremental snapshot are backed up

5. FastBack - Typical Deployment - Remote Office Protection (With TSM) Remote Office Application Servers / File Servers Data Center TSM is the workhorse in the Data Center Vault/DR Site Application Servers / File Servers FastBack Server TapeVault TSM Server WAN Remote Office FastBack Server and DR HUB Server Application Servers / File Servers TapeLibrary FastBack Server

6. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) • True Block level CDP (I/O Based) • Can achieve zero RPO • Delta from (incremental) snapshots • Set RPO per application • Configurable protection periods • Enabled per volume • Intuitive GUI • Remember CDP is a feature of the product, the product is more than CDP Protects Windows Filesystem and Windows Applications • Single backup solution offers: • CDP • Frequent Snapshot • Scheduled Protection

7. FastBack Bare Machine Recovery (BMR) Bare Machine Recovery • Takes less than an hour • Full access within minutes • With Instant Restore technology, data volumes are made available as soon as the recovery process starts • Support for dissimilar hardware • Recover on a similar server, to a completely different server, or to a Virtual Machine • “N-to-1” standby server ratio: • One standby server can provide cover for many production servers • Cost-effective ‘high availability’ alternative

8. Mount Snapshots as a Virtual Volume • Quickly mount any snapshot volume from the local or remote (replicated) repository, as a virtual volume on the server (read-only) • Mount snapshots into virtual volumes, without actually restoring the files. • Example use: • MS SQL table restore • You can mount virtual volume with a backed up database and recover anything you need without restoring the volume to disk. • When a database is backed up it resides on the FastBack repository, so a virtual volume containing the database can be mounted on any SQL server. • Mount a backup volume and attach the database to SQL without the need to restore. • User can manipulate data using native database tool • Access from anywhere • Select any saved snapshot • Any point in time • Mount as a Virtual Drive

9. Typical Production Disk FastBack Server New Production server Instant Recovery Instant Restore allows users to start using applications on the same disk to which the volume is being restored, while the restore operation is still in process. 1. Activate Instant Restore 2. Background Process restores blocks gradually 3. Write IOs are performed as usual 4. Read IOs from un-recovered areas create restore on demand 5. All other reads are performed as usual New Production Disk Production server

10. FastBack Exchange IMR Restore Item Level Recovery for Exchange Item Level Recovery of MS-Exchange • Explorer-like GUI • E-mail messages & attachments • Contacts and calendars • Tasks and notes • Mailboxes • Recover objects from corrupt EDBs • Supports Microsoft Exchange: • 2000 • 2003 • 2007 • Note: FastBack provides automatic discovery of volumes associated with Exchange and SQL • Greatly improves the efficiency of Exchange administrators • Provide object restores in minutes rather than hours, days • Helps administrator raise SLA’s by eliminating downtime

11. FastBack DR – Disaster Recovery Data Center FastBack DR Repository Central Vaulting of Backup Copies • Backup consolidation • Disaster ready • Block-level, incremental forever • Centralized backup to tape End-to-end security • Encryption in transit • Individual Virtual Vault for each office Scheduled, policy-based transfers • Optimize WAN resources Fully Automated • No manual intervention required Recover Anywhere™ • At the branch, DR site, Data Center • File or Volume restore • Instant Restore • Disaster or Operational Recovery

12. Multi Platform Support • First step adds support to Linux Environments • Following steps adds support to more operating systems • Protection and Recovery will have similar capabilities to the shipping windows solution.

13. Remote Office protectionDe-Duplication offering With De-Duplication Current Offering Branch A Branch B Branch C Data Center Internet / WAN ?