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
>
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