[gpfsug-discuss] List of deleted files via policies

[Frederick Stock]

I am not sure this will work, since I have never tried it, but perhaps you could enable file audit logging (FAL) and track only file deletions.  Presumably you could then search through the FAL log for deletions after time T.  This does of course require that you use the DME or Advanced version of Scale, and that you setup FAL.

Fred

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From: gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org> on behalf of Luis Bolinches <luis.bolinches at fi.ibm.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 10:32 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] List of deleted files via policies
Hi What you are doing is not wrong, of course create and delete snaps is not free. If you are using mmbackup you could leverage the shadow DB but running the command before the next mmbackup with –preview candidates and see the expires there. 
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What you are doing is not wrong, of course create and delete snaps is not free. If you are using mmbackup you could leverage the shadow DB but running the command before the next mmbackup with –preview candidates and see the expires there. Never tried but in my head works … as so many other things that end up not, but worth the try as you then get free of jail from snaps. If you are doing snaps anyway due some other reasons then maybe is not worth the try to go mmbackup.

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Hello everyone, I am currently looking for the most efficient way to get a list of all deleted files since time T. So far the best I could come to is to create a snapshot at time T, generate two lists via policies, one for the files inside
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Hello everyone,

I am currently looking for the most efficient way to get a list of all deleted files since time T.
So far the best I could come to is to create a snapshot at time T, generate two lists via policies, one for the files inside the .snapshots dir, one for the current filesystem, and compare the two with standard diff command.
But I was wondering if is there any smarter way with policies only.

Thanks,
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