Hey Andi I'd be talking to the pixstor boys.
Ngenea will do it for you without having to mess about too much. https://ww.pixitmedia.com They are down to earth and won't sell you stuff that doesn't work. Thanks Jack. On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 21:00, Andi Nør Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > We are currently building a 3 site spectrum scale solution where data is > going to be generated at two different sites (Site A and Site B, Site C is > for archiving/backup) and then archived on site three. > > I have however not worked with AFM much so I was wondering if there is > someone who knows how to configure AFM to have all data generated in a > file-set automatically being copied to an offsite. > > GPFS AFM is not an option because of latency between sites so NFS AFM is > going to be tunneled between the site via WAN. > > > > As of now we have tried to set up AFM but it only transfers data from home > to cache when a prefetch is manually started or a file is being opened, we > need all files from home to go to cache as soon as it is generated or at > least after a little while. > > It does not need to be synchronous it just need to be automatic. > > > > I’m not sure if attachments will be available in this thread but I have > attached the concept of our design. > > > > Basically the setup is : > > > > Site A: > > Owns “fileset A1” which needs to be replicated to Site B “fileset A2” the > from Site B to Site C “fileset A3”. > > > > Site B: > > Owns “fileset B1” which needs to be replicated to Site C “fileset B2”. > > > > Site C: > > Holds all data from Site A and B “fileset A3 & B2”. > > > > We do not need any sites to have failover functionality only a copy of the > data from the two first sites. > > > > If anyone knows how to accomplish this I would be glad to know how! > > > > We have been looking into switching the home and cache site so that data > is generated at the cache sites which will trigger GPFS to transfer the > files to home as soon as possible but as I have little to no experience > with AFM I don’t know what happens to the cache site over time, does the > cache site empty itself after a while or does data stay there until > manually deleted? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Best Regards <https://www.linkedin.com/company/b4restore-a-s/> > > > > > *Andi Nør Christiansen* > *IT Solution Specialist* > > Phone +45 87 81 37 39 > Mobile +45 23 89 59 75 > E-mail [email protected] > Web www.b4restore.com > > [image: B4Restore on LinkedIn] > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/b4restore-a-s/> [image: B4Restore on > Facebook] <https://twitter.com/b4restore> [image: B4Restore on Facebook] > <https://www.facebook.com/B4Restore> [image: Sign up for our newsletter] > <https://www.b4restore.com/en/about-us/newsletter> > > [image: Download Report] <https://www.b4restore.com/report> > > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss >
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