Can't wait until 2.0 and SNS. I think thats the only die-hard feature Lustre is really missing.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael, > > ----- "Michael Di Domenico" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We are currently using e2scan and distributed rsyncs across the >> compute farm to do the same thing with Lustre v1.6/1.8 to mirror our >> main filesystem to a backup every night. >> >> Is this a script you'd be willing to share? > > Sure, but it is fairly specific to our setup and (to be honest) is pretty > hacktastic! The basic idea is that an e2scan is run on the production > filesystem every night and new files (last 72 hours) are copied over > (incremental). Then once a week we include "deletes" which then compares the > e2scan file list from both the production and backup filesystems to work out > what needs to be deleted from the backup to synchronise the two filesystems. > We never really ever have to do a "full" backup. We also use LVM snapshots on > the backup to give us a couple of weeks of retention. > > It works for us but your mileage may vary. > > Daire > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
