We have a relatively mature NetBackup environment which handles all of our tape backup requirements (e.g. databases, NetApp via NDMP, Windows shares, and native Linux - which provides rudimentary coverage of GPFS). Because of this existing base, we're hesitant to invest in a completely separate infrastructure just for the benefit of GPFS backups. While this works well for many filesets, it's not ideal for very large ones.
We've been trying to get Veritas to support a more parallel file-scan and file-copy approach to backing up GPFS filesystems, and have repeatedly hit a brick wall there over the past year. But I have a recent thread in which they note that there is a fairly large and vocal GPFS customer who drives significant feature flow in their product. Any chance that customer is a member of the User Group? If so, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks, Paul
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