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

[Sanchez, Paul]

Yes, we did something very similar: creating file shard lists and feeding those to the bpbackup CLI tool to schedule.  In theory, this is also a node-scalable approach when using a synthetic client name shared by many nodes (all enumerated by a round-robin DNS A record) .  But there are some serious limitations (e.g. no way to avoid implicit directory recursion without failing to capture directory permissions) that make this less than ideal.  That's a NetBackup issue, of course, not a SpectrumScale limitation.  But unfortunately it isn't something Veritas shows any interest in fixing.

-Paul

From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of Marc A Kaplan
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Anyone else using Veritas NetBackup with GPFS?

Perhaps you can use mmapplypolicy which has a parallel file scan and parallel execute whatever script you like against the files found capabilities to "drive" your backups.
That is what the IBM supported mmbackup does.  mmbackup is supported for use with IBM/Tivoli TSM.  Of course IBM would like you to buy TSM, but you are free to "mashup" mmapplypolicy with any other software you choose.

Also we recently shipped an improved version of samples/ilm/mmfind that makes it easy to exploit parallel find and execute without sweating the details of mmapplypolicy and its peculiar policy SQL/rules.

-- marc of GPFS
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