[gpfsug-discuss] Anyone else using Veritas NetBackup with GPFS?

[Matt Weil]

Paul,

We currently run netbackup to push about 1.3PB of real data to tape.  
This using 1 nb master and a single media server that is also a GPFS 
client.  The media server uses the spare file system space as a staging 
area before writing to tape.  We have recently invested into a TSM 
server due to limitations of netbackup.  The PVU licensing model makes 
TSM cost effective.  We simply are not able to speed up the netbackup 
catalog even with SSD.  You could potentially use the gpfs ilm engine to 
create file lists to feed to netbackup.

netbackup (now back to veritas) does not officially support GPFS. 
Netbackup is not aware of gpfs metadata.

Matt

On 12/2/15 4:22 PM, Sanchez, Paul wrote:
> We have a relatively mature NetBackup environment which handles all of 
> our tape backup requirements (e.g. databases, NetApp via NDMP, Windows 
> shares, and native Linux – which provides rudimentary coverage of 
> GPFS).  Because of this existing base, we’re hesitant to invest in a 
> completely separate infrastructure just for the benefit of GPFS 
> backups.  While this works well for many filesets, it’s not ideal for 
> very large ones.
> We’ve been trying to get Veritas to support a more parallel file-scan 
> and file-copy approach to backing up GPFS filesystems, and have 
> repeatedly hit a brick wall there over the past year.  But I have a 
> recent thread in which they note that there is a fairly large and 
> vocal GPFS customer who drives significant feature flow in their 
> product.  Any chance that customer is a member of the User Group?  If 
> so, I’d love to hear from you.
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
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