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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We run a script on all our nodes that checks to see if they are the cluster manager.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">If they are, then they take responsibility to start the backup script.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The script then randomly selects one of the available backup nodes and uses dsmsh mmbackup on it.<br>
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Where does this command belong?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I have seen it listed as a export command, again where should that be run – on all backup nodes, or all nodes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kindest regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Ward<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">T: 02079426450<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>IBM Spectrum Scale<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 18 January 2022 22:54<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup file selections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Paul,</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you run mmbackup with "DEBUGmmbackup=2", it keeps all working files even after successful backup. They are available at
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier-Bold",serif">MMBACKUP_RECORD_ROOT</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (default is FSroot or FilesetRoot directory).
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In .mmbackupCfg directory, there are 3 directories:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier-Bold",serif">updatedFiles : contains a file that lists all candidates for backup</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier-Bold",serif">statechFiles : cantains a file that lists all candidates for meta info update</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier-Bold",serif">expiredFiles : cantains a file that lists all candidates for expiration</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team<br>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">Hi, I am trying to work out what files have been sent to backup using mmbackup. I have increased the -L value from 3 up to 6 but only seem to see the files that are in scope, not
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I am trying to work out what files have been sent to backup using mmbackup.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have increased the -L value from 3 up to 6 but only seem to see the files that are in scope, not the ones that are selected.<br>
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I can see the three file lists generated during a backup, but can’t seem to find a list of what files were backed up.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It should be the diff of the shadow and shadow-old, but the wc -l of the diff doesn’t match the number of files in the backup summary.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wrong assumption?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Where should I be looking – surely it shouldn’t be this hard to see what files are selected?</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kindest regards,</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Paul</span><br>
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