I found this link and it didn't give me much hope for doing snapshots & backup in a home(busy) filesystem: http://www.spectrumscale.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/2013- February/000200.html I realize this is dated and I wondered if qos etc have made is a tolerable thing to do now. Gpfs I think was barely above v3.5 in mid 2013. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20170320/7332a3fe/attachment.html>