Configuring the ZFS OCI Object Storage as a Cloud Repository

Use the ZDLRA archive-to-cloud to copy or move long term retention backups from the Recovery Appliance to the ZFS OCI object storage.

This configuration has the following pre-requisites:

  • The ZFS Appliance must have the OCI Object Storage interface enabled as documented in Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Object API Guide for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Service Support. There is no Archive Storage tier for ZFS, so only Standard Object Storage is supported.

  • The Recovery Appliance must be configured to use Oracle Key Vault. This must be done, because the Recovery Appliance is not aware that the target is a local ZFS appliance and treats the operation the same as an OCI object storage in the Oracle cloud. When moving data to what appears to be the cloud, the Recovery Appliance must encrypt the data before sending it to the ZFS OCI object storage. An Oracle Key Vault (OKV) server must be used to manage the keys for this encryption process.

After configuring and enabling OCI Object Storage on the ZFS appliance and setting up OKV usage with the Recovery Appliance, these are the steps to configure the ZFS bucket as a cloud_location. This section highlights the difference in the configuration process for use with ZFS.

  1. Create the cloud_key on the Recovery Appliance with racli add cloud_key.

    • If a new key pair is being created, the public key must be copied to the ZFS appliance.

    • If an existing key pair is being used for which the public key is already on the ZFS appliance, the file containing the matching private key must be specified

    • Update the cloud_key to add the fingerprint provided on the ZFS interface using the racli alter cloud_key command on Recovery Appliance.

  2. Create the cloud_user on the Recovery Appliance using the racli add cloud_user command.
  3. Create the cloud_location connection using the racli add cloud_location command.
  4. Create an SBT job template and schedule on the Recovery Appliance.

The Recovery Appliance sends now long term retention backups to the ZFS OCI Object Storage bucket, just as it would for Object Storge in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud.