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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 14, 2016

mmbackup including "virtual domains"

mmbackup on gpfs 4.1.1.2 with 69 EXCLUDE-statements needs a preparation time of > 2days.
The scanning time to receive the inode-list in the /tmp-directory took about 2 hours.
The main part of the additional time was needed for creating the weighted-list (also in /tmp) , by using the policy-file created according to the EXCLUDE-statements
.
A first reaction on the PMR was the hint to reduce the EXCLUDE-list.
=> Is in our environment not appropriate.

Solution-possibility:

Introduction of the TSM-virtual-domain-concept into mmbackup ?

In order to deliver our experiences to IBM, we made a PMR.
Due to its size, the fundamentals could only be transferred through ftp and are not outlined here.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
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    Jan 15, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #82503 in product Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs.