Fast backup. Insanely fast
Huge amounts of vital documents in your business archive make backup and high availability solutions increasingly important. Backing up a complete Integrated Files System (IFS) on IBM i takes time. At the same time you need 24/7 access to your business systems, reducing the time available for backup to almost nothing. Next® Large Volume Partitioning helps you address the challenge when you run on IBM i, have many documents, and a limited backup window.
Our IFS backup went from 150 hours to 25 minutes
— Jesper Juul Fjeldgaard, Technical Analyst, DT Group
Next® LVP by the numbers
Deploying Next® Large Volume Partitioning had a significant impact at DT Group.
| Before | After | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of documents | 62,219,312 | unchanged |
| Storage requirement | 2,55 TB | 1,95 TB |
| IFS Backup | 150 h | 25 min |
| DB2 Backup | 1 h 20 min | 4 h |
| Save Sec data | 24+ h | 8 min |
33 times faster
IFS (integrated file system) is extremely flexible, and allows you to place documents on almost any server in your network. The primary drawback is speed. IFS is much slower to backup and restore. At DT Group the DB2 based Large Volume Partitioning proved to be 33 times faster to backup.
24% smaller
IFS (integrated file system) is extremely flexible, and allows you to design your own storage structure. A potential drawback is storage space. Every file in IFS contains lots of more or less needless metadata, and hence takes up excessive disk space. At DT Group the DB2 based Large Volume Partitioning proved to be 24% more space efficient. Even with todays falling storage prices a reduction of 24% adds up.
Just safer
IFS (integrated file system) is extremely flexible, and allows you to manage documents with common file manager tools. A potential drawback is security. Your system administrator is required to juggle myriads of documents, and multiple user profiles with different authorities. With Large Volume Partitioning all documents are managed by Next® and only by Next®.
As easy as 1-2-3
Large Volume Partitioning is easy to implement: install, configure, and go.
No changes for the end-users, and no changes to your system integrations.
LVP comes with a nonintrusive migration utility, that allows you to automatically migrate existing documents from IFS to LVP, without affecting the ongoing use of Next®.
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Under the hood
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