Hi,
as I know mmbackup creates a local shadow db (data on SP server) and uses it
with the policy engine to identify candidate files for backup without requests
to the SP server.
In the process of backup, the policy engine creates temporary files with fs
metadata and then compares it with shadow
While you could query the BACKUPS or CONTENTS tables via SQL on the SP
server-side, my experience is that this is no faster than QUERY BACKUP on
the client-side, and a lot more resource-intensive for the SP server. An
alternative would be to set these variables in your mmbackup shell
environment:
artin
Lischewski
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Hello everyone,
it is my first time posting to this group, so I am sorry if this
question is to trivial.
We are using mmbackup to backup our Spectrum Scale filesystems. Because
of some bad experience in the past we do not trust the output of mmbackup.
Therefore we wrote our own scripts validati
