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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 3, 2016

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API to return changed blocks since last backup

While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being modified, it is not adapted to applications. Nowadays applications (not only in analytics) and databases are dealing with very large containers (files) that need to be backed up every day.
We would need an API that would work like TSM for VE (Virtual Environment) where each VMware Host is tracking changed blocks and via VADP sending that list to TSM for VE proxy machine. In context of Spectrum Scale, the API would compare 2 snapshots and return the list of changed blocks to the backup server or its media server. Obviously while to would speed up the backup time, we would need to make sure that within the backup server there are some mechanisms to create from those changed blocks synthetic type of backup (backupset) to make sure that actually the restoration time is also very good.
Note: It would take more time to restore than to backup.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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 - V4 Product functionality

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 13, 2017

    This should fall under the responsibility of the backup tools.

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