[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS snapshot cron job

[Pete Smith]

Hi

rsnapshot is probably what you're looking for. :-)
 On 6 Feb 2013 18:39, "Stuart Barkley" <stuartb at 4gh.net> wrote:

> I'm new on this list.  It looks like it can be useful for exchanging
> GPFS experiences.
>
> We have been running GPFS for a couple of years now on one cluster and
> are in process of bringing it up on a couple of other clusters.
>
> One thing we would like, but have not had time to do is automatic
> snapshots similar to what NetApp does.  For our purposes a cron job
> that ran every 4 hours that creates a new snapshot and removes older
> snapshots would be sufficient.  The slightly hard task is correctly
> removing the older snapshots.
>
> Does anyone have such a cron script they can share?
>
> Or did I miss something in GPFS that handles automatic snapshots?
>
> Thanks,
> Stuart Barkley
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