On 1/24/07, stephen lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can make some general suggestions on how to avoid duplicate backups, but I'm not very familiar with TSM, or your specific backup requirements. Does the TSM backup client run in the global zone, the non-global zones, or both?
Only in the global zone. I did test it in the zones and it seems to run well, was wondering if I should in fact use the global tsm scheduler and run dsmc i within each zones thru the pre or postschedulecmd options. That would allow the end users to be able to access tsm thru the "old" way in each zone. Of course this is not officially supported by IBM at this time, which is one of the reasons I'm reluctant to do it... you cannot mess with backups... The other case encountered are databases (oracle rman, sybase and else) which rely on a backup client binary to be available to run their backups...
What is the "default TSM configuration" that results in these duplicate backups?
After reading your mail, I decided to run a test again from scratch (guess being quietly at home helps :)) Created a test file into the ufs filesystem exported thru lofs as /var in the zone vsmd8008:/zones #touch /zones/virtual-filesystems/dbsz8005/var/test vsmd8008:/zones #dsmc i /zones/dbsz8005 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface Client Version 5, Release 3, Level 4.4 Client date/time: 01/24/07 18:51:35 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2006. All Rights Reserved. Node Name: VSMD8008 Session established with server NBU35: AIX-RS/6000 Server Version 5, Release 3, Level 2.4 Server date/time: 01/24/07 18:47:39 Last access: 01/24/07 18:46:39 Incremental backup of volume '/zones/dbsz8005' ANS1898I ***** Processed 13,500 files ***** ANS1898I ***** Processed 25,500 files ***** ANS1898I ***** Processed 36,500 files ***** ANS1898I ***** Processed 51,000 files ***** ANS1898I ***** Processed 65,000 files ***** ANS1898I ***** Processed 74,000 files ***** Special File--> 0 /zones/dbsz8005/root/etc/saf/_sacpipe [Sent] Special File--> 0 /zones/dbsz8005/root/etc/saf/zsmon/_pmpipe [Sent] Normal File--> 309 /zones/dbsz8005/root/opt/CA/SharedComponents/UnicenterAutoSysJM/logfiles/asrcslsn.log [Sent] Normal File--> 309 /zones/dbsz8005/root/opt/CA/SharedComponents/UnicenterAutoSysJM/logfiles/asrcslsn.log.01222007 [Sent] Successful incremental backup of '/zones/dbsz8005' Guess after all, it didn't backup the file being into the lofs mount... good news...
Does the "default TSM configuration" traverse mountpoints?
Doesn't appear to be the case ...
In general I would suggest NOT backing up any lofs mounts. For instance, if you want to backup "Everything", on the system, backup all mountpoints of fstypes that you are interested in, from the global zone.
Point well taken here. Guess that would mean that backups shouldn't run from within a zone on a 100% lofs based zone right ? Also, is there a reason for the "logging" fs option to the lofs mounts? The old document I was using as a reference had that listed originally, time to update the template used by my zone builder script. Regards -- Gael -- Gael
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