Superna Golden Copy With Wasabi

Wasabi has been validated for use with Superna’s Golden Copy. Golden Copy is an Isilon-integrated file-to-object copy tool with a built-in load balancer for Dell ECS and other S3 targets, eliminating the need for external load balancers. To learn more about Superna - Wasabi joint solution, please review this solution brief. To use this product with Wasabi, follow the instructions below.

Reference Architecture

Requirements

• Golden Copy v. 1.1.6

• Any license type

• An active Wasabi account

Configuration

Golden Copy is a CLI-managed product. The user would need to be SSH'd into the GoldenCopy node 1 as the ecaadmin user 

1. Use this command to add a folder to the backup.

searchctl archivedfolders add --isilon gcsource --folder /ifs/archive --accesskey XXXXXX --secretkey XXXXXXXXXX --endpoint https://s3.wasabisys.com --bucket gctest --cloudtype other

Note: This config example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this article.

2. Use this command to start a backup.

searchctl archivedfolders archive –id 

3. Monitor backups with the command.  

searchctl archivedfolders stats --id xx

4. Use the command to list folder ids.

searchctl archivedfolders list