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IBM® Storage Protect Snapshot provides a method to back up and restore data by using the advanced snapshot technologies of storage systems.

The following list identifies the applications that can be protected and cloned with IBM Storage Protect Snapshot:
  • Custom Applications (without cloning)
  • DB2®
  • DB2 in an SAP environment
  • DB2 in a partitioned database environment. You can back up and restore data from single-partition databases, and logically or physically partitioned DB2 databases.
  • Oracle
  • Oracle in an SAP environment
  • Oracle with Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
  • Oracle in a RAC environment.
The following list identifies the storage solutions or file systems that you can use with IBM Storage Protect Snapshot software:
  • IBM XIV® Storage System
  • IBM Storwize® family
  • IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller
  • IBM System Storage DS8000®
  • IBM System Storage N series
  • NetApp Storage system
  • IBM Storage Scale file system.

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot can back up applications that are on snapshot-oriented storage systems or file systems.

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot supports AIX® and Linux™ operating systems.

Backup operations are based on volume-level copy operations that are provided by the storage system. For GPFS™ in combination with Custom Applications, the backup operations are based on GPFS file sets. In this scenario, any storage solution that is supported by the GPFS file system can be used. IBM Storage Protect Snapshot takes snapshots at a volume group or GPFS file set level for granular control.

When you use IBM Storage Protect Snapshot with other IBM Storage Protect products, snapshots can be sent to the server. Transfer snapshots by using IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client. To send snapshot backups to IBM Storage Protect, you must configure a backup server or cluster.

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot for Custom Application can be used to protect any generic database application, or applications that are on file systems that are supported by IBM Storage Protect Snapshot.