<html><body><p><font size="2">Please show us the 2 or 3 mmbackup commands that you would like to run concurrently.</font><br><br><font size="2">Peeking into the script, I find:</font><br><br><font size="2">if [[ $scope == "inode-space" ]]</font><br><font size="2">then</font><br><font size="2"> deviceSuffix="${deviceName}.${filesetName}"</font><br><font size="2">else</font><br><font size="2"> deviceSuffix="${deviceName}"<br></font><br><br><font size="2">I believe mmbackup is designed to allow concurrent backup of different independent filesets within the same filesystem, Or different filesystems...</font><br><br><font size="2">And a single mmbackup instance can drive several TSM servers, which can be named with an option or in the dsm.sys file:</font><br><br><font size="2"># --tsm-servers TSMserver[,TSMserver...]</font><br><font size="2"># List of TSM servers to use instead of the servers in the dsm.sys file.</font><br><br><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0E3BDF94C9D18f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Jaime Pinto ---11/01/2019 07:40:47 PM---How can I force secondary processes to use the folder instruc"><font size="2" color="#424282">Jaime Pinto ---11/01/2019 07:40:47 PM---How can I force secondary processes to use the folder instructed by the -g option? I started a mmbac</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Jaime Pinto <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">11/01/2019 07:40 PM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup $B!>(Bg GlobalWorkDirectory not being followed</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">How can I force secondary processes to use the folder instructed by the -g option?<br><br>I started a mmbackup with $B!>(Bg /gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg1 and another with $B!>(Bg /gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg2 (and another with $B!>(Bg /gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg3 ...)<br><br>However I'm still seeing transient files being worked into a "/gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg" folder (created by magic !!!). This absolutely can not happen, since it's mixing up workfiles from multiple mmbackup instances for different target TSM servers.<br><br>See below the "-f /gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg/prepFiles" created by mmapplypolicy (forked by mmbackup):<br><br>DEBUGtsbackup33: /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmapplypolicy "/gpfs/fs1/home" -g /gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg2 -N tapenode3-ib -s /dev/shm -L 2 --qos maintenance -a 8 -P /var/mmfs/mmbackup/.mmbackupRules.fs1.home -I prepare -f /gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg/prepFiles --irule0 --sort-buffer-size=5% --scope inodespace<br><br><br>Basically, I don't want a "/gpfs/fs1/home/.mmbackupCfg" folder to ever exist. Otherwise I'll be forced to serialize these backups, to avoid the different mmbackup instances tripping over each other. The serializing is very undesirable.<br><br>Thanks<br>Jaime<br><br><br><br> ************************************<br> TELL US ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS STORIES<br> </font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://www.scinethpc.ca/testimonials">http://www.scinethpc.ca/testimonials</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"> <br> ************************************<br>---<br>Jaime Pinto - Storage Analyst<br>SciNet HPC Consortium - Compute/Calcul Canada<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2">www.scinet.utoronto.ca</font></tt><tt><font size="2"> - </font></tt><tt><font size="2">www.computecanada.ca</font></tt><tt><font size="2"><br>University of Toronto<br>661 University Ave. (MaRS), Suite 1140<br>Toronto, ON, M5G1M1<br>P: 416-978-2755<br>C: 416-505-1477<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"> <br><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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