"Kronstadt, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Antbody out there with a Network Appliance filer? How are you doing backups?
We mount the filer's root on the ADSM server (3.1 on AIX -- we're
planning a move to TSM, but haven't yet) using a private network, and
back it up as a separate node (with a second dsmc process using a
second dsm.opt and a unique server definition in dsm.sys).
We decided to back up our filers from the ADSM server to keep network
usage down (i.e. no data going from the filer to some client, then to
the ADSM server). We back them up as separate nodes to keep the backups
of the ADSM server machine reasonable.
The only real "gotcha" with a filer is not also backing up the
snapshots. I have (in the server section of dsm.sys):
VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /filermountpoint/.snapshot
You could probably also do this with exclude.dir, but that feature
wasn't available when I originally set this up.
So, for example, with a filer named "filer" and an ADSM server named
"server," we'd start dsmc with
/usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsmc schedule -optfile=/usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsm_filer.opt
And we have the following:
==> dsm_filer.opt <==
Servername ADSM_FILER
DOMAIN /filer
memoryefficientbackup yes
==> relevant excerpt from dsm.sys <==
Servername ADSM_FILER
commmethod tcpip
TCPPort 1500
TCPServeraddress 127.0.0.1
nodename server_filer
passwordaccess generate
schedmode prompted
schedlogname /var/adsm/schedlog_filer.log
schedlogretention 5
inclexcl /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/inclexcl_filer.opt
VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT /filer/.snapshot
Geoff
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