Copy retention sets to cloud object storage

With IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.13, you can copy retention sets to cloud object storage. You can maintain a copy of retention sets on standard cloud storage or archive cloud storage. By copying retention sets to standard cloud storage, you provide an extra layer of protection for the data. By copying retention sets to archive cloud storage, you provide long-term protection of data that is infrequently accessed.

You can copy retention sets to the following cloud object storage providers:

Amazon Web Services with Simple Storage Service (S3)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Services
IBM Cloud® Object Storage on premises and on the IBM® public cloud

You can also copy retention sets to the cloud object storage of approved third-party S3 providers. For a list of supported cloud object storage providers, see technote 727913. You can copy retention sets to the following archive cloud storage classes:

Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
IBM Cloud Object Storage Archive
IBM Cloud Object Storage Accelerated Archive

In this release, the STAGE VOLUME command is added to optimize the retrieval of data from archive storage classes such as Amazon S3 Glacier. By using the STAGE VOLUME command, you can temporarily stage volumes from archive storage to instant access storage.