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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:
  • Oracle
  • Oracle in an SAP environment
  • Oracle with Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
  • Oracle in a RAC environment.
  • 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.
  • Custom Applications (without cloning)

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

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

IBM Storage Protect Snapshot integrates with other IBM Storage Protect products to send snapshot backups to an IBM Storage Protect server. These backups are called offloaded backups.
  • To send snapshot backups to an IBM Storage Protect server, a separate backup server is required.
  • For Oracle environments, IBM Storage Protect for Databases is used for this operation.
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