We’re also snapshotting 4 times a day. Filesystem isn’t tremendously busy at all but we’re creating snaps for each fileset. [root at cesnode tmp]# mmlssnapshot gpfs | wc -l 6916 From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org] On Behalf Of J. Eric Wonderley Sent: 20 March 2017 14:03 To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] snapshots & tiering in a busy filesystem 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/20170322/e8893daf/attachment.html>