[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs snapshots

Laurence Horrocks-Barlow laurence at qsplace.co.uk
Tue Sep 13 05:06:42 BST 2016


There are many people doing the same thing so nothing to worry about.

As your using 4.2.1 you can at least bulk delete the snapshots using a comma separated list, making life just that little bit easier.

-- Lauz

On 13 September 2016 04:19:30 BST, "Sobey, Richard A" <r.sobey at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>Don't worry. We do 400+ snapshots every 4 hours and that number is only
>getting bigger. Don't know what our current snapid count is mind you,
>can find out when in the office.
>
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>On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:30 PM +0100, "Lukas Hejtmanek"
><xhejtman at ics.muni.cz<mailto:xhejtman at ics.muni.cz>> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>using gpfs 4.2.1, I do about 60 snapshots per day (one snapshot per 15
>minutes
>during working hours). It seems that snapid is increasing only number.
>Should
>I be fine with such a number of snapshots per day? I guess we could
>reach
>snapid 100,000. I remove all these snapshots during night so I do not
>keep
>huge number of snapshots.
>
>--
>Lukáš Hejtmánek
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