Tina IFREMER Sounds Like the latest R&B Singer You've Never Heard of. But, actually, it's the name gave to the atempo backup software That's been in use for 23 years by the french National Institute for Ocean Science and Technology.
That's quite a lengthy period for a piece of software to be deployed, Given that customers are very well to change things every few years.
And for good reason. The Institute – IFREMERFor short; It's an abbreviation-Needs to be able to access records that date back over that period of Near Two-Ae-A-AHALF Decades.
IFREMER Specialies in Oceanographic Studies, AIMS at Sustainable Use of the Sea's Resources and the Marine Environment, and Shares Information with a wide range of organizations to thys.
It Employers 1,500 in a Workforce that Includes Scientists, Engineers, Technicians and Admin Staff Across five centers in france and its oversas territories. Meanwhile, it has Around 20 Operational Sites Across the World's Oceans.
It's a Public Sector Organization – an EPIC, in the terminology – Establed so that while most of its funding come from government ministry, ifremer havemer has the capacity to respond to service requirement Elsewhere to help with funding.
Centralising data
A Tird-Parthy Support Provider, Ric, Based in Northern France, Looks After Operational Maintenance, Infrastructure, Networks, Backup, Storage and the Security of Resurgent Data. It also looks after high-performance computing (HPC) on the Datarmor Supercomputer, which carries out oceanic modeling that incluses tempratures, salinity, and so on.
IFREMER Selected ATEMPO as a Data Protection Provider Back in 2002. That Included Protection of Bare Metal Servers, Databases and the Organization's Network-Atached Storage (Using NDMP)A Total of 400TB (Terabytes) is protected, with tina deployed at each site and backups centered at a site in brest, france.
That Configuration Allows For Rapid and Reliable restores From the Central Site While also protecting local sites. IFREMER WORKS to a 3-2-1 Backup Schema and also Stores Backups Off-site on tapeThat occurs via a quantum dxi disk-based backup appliance that stages data off to tape, which optimies perform performance during busing backup windows and buys in data.
Four challenges; Four Purchasing Criteria
The key challenges and, as a result, the key criteria in product choice was:
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- Large Volumes of Data, With Hundreds of Terabytes of Data Resulting from Research that needs to be stored.
- Large Numbers of Small Files, which presented issues of performance, especially in indexing Millions of Small Files.
- Self-service restores, carried out by the results without needing to depend on the it team.
“We want to protect the intellectual heritage of IFREMER,” said béatrice le berre, who works on the team that runs tina at IFREMER. “IFREMER has the challenge of data sovereignty. We are partisans of the Principle of Open Data in Science, but at the same time, we have to be aware of espionage and attempts to take critical data. “
Jérôme le letyy, who also works on the tina team, added: “Being altar to navigate temporly was another key factor in the adoption of the solution. That allows us to visualize the state of a disk in the tina ui [user interface] And view its deleted files, maybe in error, and recover them, and that's essential. ”
Next: VM Backup
At each of the remote sites, backups take place daily and locally, going to tape or disk depending on the size of the site. Once a week, local backups are sent to the Central DataCentre at Brest.
“The solution does its work and does it well,” said Le Berre. “Tina works on the different platforms that we use, even the linux servers.”
Next, the plan is to back up virtual servers to tina. Also, IFREMER Wants to Create a digital replica of the oceans on the datarmor supercomputer, which itself is underging a huege update.
Ifremer pays for tina via a three-year renewing license with no restriction on data volumes stored. The software is updated twice a year.