[gpfsug-discuss] [External] Re: mmbackup

[Jim Roche]

Simon is correct from that point of view.  If you can see it on your commercial.lenovo.com site then you are able to use it within your licensing  rules and that you are still compatible from a Spectrum Scale point of view.  The DSS-G specific tarballs (2.6a, 2.6b, 3.0, etc...) should be used exactly as is for deploying the DSS-G, but then normal Spectrum scale client/server compatibility follows.  The tarball will define what MUST run on the DSS-G NSDs, but after that you are free to download/use whichever client version you are entitled to  -- which should correspond to what is visible on the website to download.

Jim


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-----Original Message-----
From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Buzzard
Sent: 17 August 2020 10:36
To: gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
Subject: [External] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup

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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