Matt, this was true for a while, but got fixed, Netbackup has added support for GPFS metadata and acls in newer versions. more details can be read here : https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000079433
sven On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Matt Weil <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > We currently run netbackup to push about 1.3PB of real data to tape. This > using 1 nb master and a single media server that is also a GPFS client. > The media server uses the spare file system space as a staging area before > writing to tape. We have recently invested into a TSM server due to > limitations of netbackup. The PVU licensing model makes TSM cost > effective. We simply are not able to speed up the netbackup catalog even > with SSD. You could potentially use the gpfs ilm engine to create file > lists to feed to netbackup. > > netbackup (now back to veritas) does not officially support GPFS. > Netbackup is not aware of gpfs metadata. > > Matt > > > On 12/2/15 4:22 PM, Sanchez, Paul wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at > spectrumscale.orghttp://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > > > > ____ This email message is a private communication. The information > transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person or > entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, privileged, > and/or proprietary material. Any review, duplication, retransmission, > distribution, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, > this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient > is unauthorized by the sender and is prohibited. If you have received this > message in error, please contact the sender immediately by return email and > delete the original message from all computer systems. Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > >
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