Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection" - how about a Billion files in 140 seconds?

2016-08-31 Thread Marc A Kaplan
When you write something like "mmbackup takes ages" - that let's us know how you feel, kinda. But we need some facts and data to make a determination if there is a real problem and whether and how it might be improved. Just to do a "back of the envelope" estimate of how long backup operations

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection" (Dominic Mueller-Wicke)

2016-08-31 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 07:52:38AM +0200, Dominic Mueller-Wicke01 wrote: > Thanks for reading the paper. I agree that the restore of a large number of > files is a challenge today. The restore is the focus area for future > enhancements for the integration between IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection" (Dominic Mueller-Wicke)

2016-08-30 Thread Dominic Mueller-Wicke01
ug 2016 16:24:59 -0700 - To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection"

2016-08-30 Thread Olaf Weiser
       08/31/2016 06:01 AMSubject:        Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection"Sent by:        gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.orgJust want to add on to one of the points Sven touched on regarding metadata HW. We have a modest SSD infr

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection"

2016-08-30 Thread Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP]
having solid metadata disks (no pun intended) will really help with scan times. From: Sven Oehme Sent: 8/30/16, 7:25 PM To: gpfsug main discussion list Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection" so lets start with some simple questions.

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection"

2016-08-30 Thread Sven Oehme
so lets start with some simple questions. when you say mmbackup takes ages, what version of gpfs code are you running ? how do you execute the mmbackup command ? exact parameters would be useful . what HW are you using for the metadata disks ? how much capacity (df -h) and how many inodes (df -i)

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] *New* IBM Spectrum Protect Whitepaper "Petascale Data Protection"

2016-08-30 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:20:46AM +0200, Frank Kraemer wrote: > Find the paper here: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Petascale%20Data%20Protection thank you for the paper, I appreciate it. However, I wonder