million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Jorge Amil
Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not supported. Thanks in advance Jorge

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Lee, Gary
: Thursday, February 02, 2012 9:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] million files backup Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not supported. Thanks

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Jorge Amil
Feb 2012 08:47:24 -0600 From: jschnei...@ussco.com Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Jorge, On Unix systems: I've done it in two steps. Create a tar file of the file system and zip it. Create a second file listing all the files in the tarred directory

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Sims
Be sure to check the mail archives (www.adsm.org or www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/) for common issues having been discussed in the past. A lot of people have contributed a lot of information in the past. See Many Small Files challenge in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts

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2012-02-02 Thread D'Antonio III, Vincent E (N-Aerotek)
] million files backup Hi Jim, thank you very much for your answer. Actually we are doing what you say. Filesystem .tar. It was a great solution when the filesystem was 500Gb-1Tb but actually our filesystem is 14Tb. The tar/gzip command took 10-12 days... :( So we need another aproach Thanks Jorge

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer Wolf
be not suitable. best regards Rainer Am 02.02.2012 15:30, schrieb Jorge Amil: Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not supported. Thanks in advance Jorge

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Gretchen L. Thiele
University -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 9:50 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup Is it organized into subdirectory trees? If so, virtual

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2012-02-02 Thread Gloeer, Kirsten
@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: [ADSM-L] million files backup Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not supported. Thanks in advance Jorge

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Skylar Thompson
Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine On 02/ 2/12 06:30 AM, Jorge Amil wrote: Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Remco Post
GPFS, so use mmbackup with TSM, there is some white/blue/redpaper or a wiki somewhere about that. On 2 feb. 2012, at 15:30, Jorge Amil wrote: Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Howard Coles
Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jorge Amil Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 9:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup Hi Jim, thank you very much for your answer. Actually we are doing what you say. Filesystem

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2012-02-02 Thread Robert A. Clark
@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] million files backup Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not supported. Thanks in advance

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Dan Olson
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:11:07 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] million files backup Have you tried using the memoryefficient=diskcache method? I'm assuming you have. Takes a while, but on fast systems I've had pretty decent results. You may need to go the virtual mount point route though

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Schneider, Jim
[mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jorge Amil Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:30 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L] million files backup Hi everybody, Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than contains million files? Backup image is not posible

Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Jorge Amil
Thank you very much for all your answers.I´m going to read carefully all your mail to valorate the best solution. Thanks Jorge