[gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 15/08/2020 19:24, Simon Thompson wrote:
> 
> When you "web portal" it's not clear if you refer to fix central or
> the commercial.lenovo.com site, the client binaries are a separate
> set of downloads to the DSS-G bundle for the servers, from where you
> should be able to download 5.0.5.1 (at least I can see that there).
> Provided your DSS-G is under entitlement, my understanding is that
> you are entitled to download the client bundle supplied by Lenovo.
> 

I was indeed referring to the commercial.lenovo.com site.

So yes there seems to be separate client binaries for download, however 
the DSS-G bundle's for the servers also includes the client binaries too.

It is however as clear as a thick gloppy mud what you are entitled to use.

The backup node is a genuine RHEL7 machine, so it was trivial to pin it 
to 7.7 and upgrade using the 5.0.4-3 RPM's that came in the 2.6b bundle. 
This has at least got me out the hole of mmbackup no longer working and 
having to resort to a "dsmc incr"

However I reached an executive decision over the weekend of "sod it" I 
am upgrading to the full 7.8 latest with 5.0.5.1 GPFS client today.


JAB.

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