I'm wondering if anyone has experience assigning non-default management classes to new files via mmbackup (I know that it's not possible to rebind existing files). Until recently, we've gotten away with just using the policy domain default management class, but the documentation here suggests that it should be possible to assign non-default management classes as well:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699569 Unfortunately, when I've tested it, all I get is the default. For instance, we have this rule in dsm.sys to assign all files in /gpfs/gs1/noble in directories marked "backups" to the noble_lab management class: SErvername gpfs-gs1-noble-vol3 ... include /gpfs/gs1/noble/.../backups/.../* noble_lab And I make a test file: dd if=/dev/zero of=/gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/test7 bs=1M count=1000 I create a snapshot (noble_vol3 is in a fileset so we can manage quotas for it): # mmcrsnapshot gs1 noble_vol3:TSMsnap And run mmbackup: # mmbackup /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3 \ -t incremental \ --tsm-servers gpfs-gs1-noble-vol3 \ -N tsm_clients \ -S TSMsnap \ --tsm-errorlog /var/log/dsmerror-gpfs-gs1-noble-vol3.log \ -a 4 \ --expire-threads 4 \ --backup-threads 4 \ --scope inodespace Querying the backups afterwards shows that it's in the DEFAULT management class, not NOBLE_LAB: # dsmc q b -se=gpfs-gs1-noble-vol3 /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/test7 ... Size Backup Date Mgmt Class A/I File ---- ----------- ---------- --- ---- 104,857,600 B 04/03/2017 07:25:53 DEFAULT A /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/test7 But I know that rule is valid, because I can run "dsmc incremental" afterwards and thefile gets rebound: # dsmc i -se=gpfs-gs1-noble-vol3 /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/ ... Rebinding--> 104,857,600 /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/test7 [Sent] # dsmc q b -se=gpfs-gs1-noble-vol3 /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/test7 ... Size Backup Date Mgmt Class A/I File ---- ----------- ---------- --- ---- 104,857,600 B 04/03/2017 06:48:24 NOBLE_LAB A /gpfs/gs1/noble/vol3/backups/test7 Thanks! -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
