This pattern provides four options for backing up your Sun Microsystems SPARC servers after a migration from an on-premises environment to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. These backup options help you to implement a backup plan that meets your organization’s recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO), uses automated approaches, and lowers your overall operational costs. The pattern provides an overview of the four backup options and steps to implement them.
If you use a Sun SPARC server hosted as a guest on a Stromasys Charon-SSP emulator, you can use one of the following three backup options:
Backup option 1: Stromasys virtual tape – Use the Charon-SSP virtual tape feature to set up a backup facility in the Sun SPARC server and archive your backup files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier using AWS Systems Manager Automation.
Backup option 2: Stromasys snapshot – Use the Charon-SSP snapshot feature to set up a backup facility for the Sun SPARC guest servers in Charon-SSP.
Backup option 3: Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume snapshot – If you host the Charon-SSP emulator on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you can use an Amazon EBS volume snapshot to create backups for a Sun SPARC file system.
If you use a Sun SPARC server hosted as a guest on hardware and Charon-SSP on Amazon EC2, you can use the following backup option:
Backup option 4: AWS Storage Gateway virtual tape library (VTL) – Use a backup application with a Storage Gateway VTL Tape Gateway to back up the Sun SPARC servers.
