Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-07 Thread Skylar Thompson
Fair enough. But I think IBM might be the exception here (TSM is another product that proves it). Unfortunately, both of these products come at an upfront price that allows other vendors to undercut them *initially*. Of course, if you look years later, products with ILM built in from the start

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
Agreed that NDMP is awful. I think you're on the right track with your NFS solution. Here's how we deal with it now: * Break your NFS volumes up into different mount points (i.e. break /net/example/foo into /net/example/foo/dir1, /net/example/foo/dir2, ...). Reference each mount point using

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-06 Thread Prather, Wanda
backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device Agreed that NDMP is awful. I think you're on the right track with your NFS solution. Here's how we deal with it now: * Break your NFS volumes up into different mount points (i.e. break /net/example/foo into /net/example/foo/dir1, /net/example/foo/dir2

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
I so wish we could do this. Unfortunately, backups/restores are considered an afterthought both by the vendors and customer management. In general, data lifecycle management has gotten to be a thornier problem over the years, and a lot of people deal with that by ignoring it until it's a serious

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-06 Thread Ken Bury
Actually IBM does consider backup and ILM in the GPFS file system. Now with the new NFS integration features in GPFS V4.1 the errors of your NAS ways can be corrected. kenb...@us.ibm.com On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Skylar Thompson skyl...@u.washington.eduwrote: I so wish we could do this.

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-05 Thread Dury, John C.
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 3:46 PM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We are more

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-16 Thread Prather, Wanda
them at restore time. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 3:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-14 Thread Dury, John C.
] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:11 PM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image

file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-13 Thread Dury, John C.
We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image backups don't help much) backups (and restores if necessary) of the entire NDMP device to the local TSM server. Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me how they

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-13 Thread Remco Post
Op 13 feb. 2014, om 20:11 heeft Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.com het volgende geschreven: We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image backups don't help much) backups (and restores if necessary) of the entire NDMP

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-13 Thread Prather, Wanda
system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image backups don't help much) backups (and restores if necessary) of the entire NDMP device to the local TSM server. Can someone point me

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
[mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file