Thanks, Elaine. I suppose I'll need to schedule periodic maintenance with the end users so I can take the filesystem offline for backups. At least, until the next version of OrangeFS comes out :-)
Happy New Years, --Scott On 12/27/12 2:22 PM, "Elaine Quarles" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Hi Scott, > >In order to back up the metadata you need to copy the Berkeley db files. >You can just zip the directory where they reside. Note that it is best to >have the file system quiesced during the copy. > >-- Elaine > >On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Scott Roberts ><[email protected]> wrote: > >Good morning all, > >I'd like to know how to safely back up my metadata. I've looked through >the pvfs2-users archive and while I can find numerous folks mentioning >it's a good thing to do, I don't see a set of instructions on how to >actually do it. I suppose this might be a topic in the upcoming OrangeFS >Administrator Manual? > >Thanks in advance, and Happy Holidays! > >--Scott > > >_______________________________________________ >Pvfs2-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > > > > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
