The most common implementation relies on versioning of S3 protocol objects and therefore the possibility of immutability in governance or compliance mode with DataCore SWARM.
This allows us to store immutable backup sets in order to guarantee our customers a local set for restoring IT production even in the event of a cyber attack.
The other use case is to couple DataCore SWARM with another archiving tool. This combination allows folders and files that are considered archives to be offloaded to large file servers.
Folders and files are moved from production environments that most often use expensive SSD or NVME drives to low-cost NL-SAS storage.
These unloads can be processed according to different Lifecycle policies on the archiving tool, management rules can then be applied to the objects stored on the SWARM DataCore.
This solution initially allowed us to make our backup sets more reliable thanks to the immutability of S3 Protocol objects.
The data remains stored locally which allows for high throughputs both for vegetable backups and also for restorations.
The archiving functionality make it possible to recover high-cost production storage space (SSD and NVMe disks).
Combined with the versioning functionality on a redundant and replicable system (based on erasure coding), it eliminates the problems of backing up large quantities of data which for the majority can be considered dead such as invoices, data from communications services (photos and films), a large part of office files, etc.
