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

[Sven Oehme]

Matt,

this was true for a while, but got fixed, Netbackup has added support for
GPFS metadata and acls in newer versions.
more details can be read here :
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000079433

sven

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Matt Weil <mweil at genome.wustl.edu> wrote:

> 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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