Scott: In addition to scheduled backups, here at Clemson University, we have the metadata mirrored (RAID-1). So, for hardware failures, we have the mirrors. For software failures (or corruption), we have the backups. We run backups every 4 hours and keep the backups for a short period of time.
Becky On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Elaine Quarles <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, > > Having scheduled times for the backup would be great. You can also make > copies while the file system is running; you are just not guaranteed that > all the files will be accessible after a restore. Depending on your use > case, the hot backup may or may not be a desirable thing. > > -- Elaine > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 9:24 AM > To: Elaine Quarles > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pvfs2-users] How do I back up the metadata? > > 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 > -- Becky Ligon OrangeFS Support and Development Omnibond Systems Anderson, South Carolina
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