[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs snapshots

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at ics.muni.cz
Tue Sep 13 21:57:52 BST 2016


Yuri et al.

thank you for answers, I should be fine with snapshots as you suggest. 

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 03:42:00PM -0700, Yuri L Volobuev wrote:
> The increasing value of snapId is not a problem.  Creating snapshots every
> 15 min is somewhat more frequent than what is customary, but as long as
> you're able to delete filesets at the same rate you're creating them, this
> should work OK.
> 
> yuri
> 
> 
> 
> From:	Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman at ics.muni.cz>
> To:	gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org,
> Date:	09/12/2016 03:30 PM
> Subject:	[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs snapshots
> Sent by:	gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> using gpfs 4.2.1, I do about 60 snapshots per day (one snapshot per 15
> minutes
> during working hours). It seems that snapid is increasing only number.
> Should
> I be fine with such a number of snapshots per day? I guess we could reach
> snapid 100,000. I remove all these snapshots during night so I do not keep
> huge number of snapshots.
> 
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