Peter Burris28
How should you manage primary storage alongside backup and recovery at the intelligent edge?
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Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
I'd like not to worry about this at all. It either integrates into my existing backup platform or is part of the package for a intelligent edge solution. I don't want a new solution for backup because the data is physically located at the edge.
Courtney Pallotta
You can SETTLE for the status quo. Primary, backup and DR are one set of challenges and can be solved together - not in silos. #clearskyedge
Darren Miller
The edge should be used for it's purpose.. high speed data access while backups can be pushed out to the cloud for long term.
John Furrier
this is a great question many are learning what is best practice I haven't seen a consensus of what's a good solution
jameskobielus
A well-architected storage architecture should seamlessly replicate data from primary storage to backup/recovery edge nodes/clusters. That's are core definition of intelligent edge storage.
Peter Burris
@CTOAdvisor Edge RPO/RTO: That's policy-driven, right? Many B/R solutions don't support edge-oriented policies well.
Courtney Pallotta
You CAN'T :) SETTLE for the status quo. Primary, backup and DR are one set of challenges and can be solved together - not in silos. #clearskyedge
Darren Miller
Unless I'm using my BUs during the day for purposes other than traditional backup, I don't want them on my edge. I want them available when I need them and my edge to service my app compute.
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
Like all things it depends. What are you trying to protect against in backups vs. snapshots? If you have to restore from backup then do you enact your BC plan vs. recovering a corrupted file locally?
Marc Keating
@jameskobielus replicating data from primary storage to backup/recovery is certainly one way of doing that, but it involves making, paying for, and moving copies of data
jameskobielus
@DarrenMilr So, essentially, you're defining edge storage's primary use case as fast data access. Right?
Keith Townsend - Light will overcome darkness
Synthetic (do they even use that term anymore) backups from the edge to the core combined with local snapshots may meet most recovery scenarios. How often do you need to recovery TB's from backup? That's never a good situation.