[gpfsug-discuss] Quick hand count of GPFS + TSM users
Orlando Richards
orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk
Thu Sep 13 15:49:45 BST 2012
On 13/09/12 15:42, Jez Tucker wrote:
> Hello there
>
> Of the membership, who of you [or your companies] use TSM with GPFS?
>
I do (University of Edinburgh)
> If you do:
>
> 1)Do you use Windows or Linux TSM?
>
Linux - although we're about to trial Windows server backups (not GPFS).
> 2)Do you use HSM (Linux: TSM Space Management, Windows: TSM HSM)?
>
Not yet - but about to trial this too! We're thinking of re-doing how we
do disaster recovery, along the lines of rsync'ing a candidate list to
an off-site HSM filesystem (as opposed to "dsmc incr")
> 3)Do you use TSM in the traditional mode for backup/archive, or pass a
> filelist generated by GPFS?
GPFS file list - not using mmbackup though, our own custom stuff instead
(mmbackup wasn't stable at our scale when we started doing this).
>
> If you do not use TSM:
>
> 4)What backup / HSM software do you use?
>
We used to use EMC Networker. It couldn't keep up, so we jumped ship.
> Thanks
>
> Jez
>
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