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<div>We have a relatively mature NetBackup environment which handles all of our tape backup requirements (e.g. databases, NetApp via NDMP, Windows shares, and native Linux – which provides rudimentary coverage of GPFS). Because of this existing base, we’re
hesitant to invest in a completely separate infrastructure just for the benefit of GPFS backups. While this works well for many filesets, it’s not ideal for very large ones. </div>
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<div>We’ve been trying to get Veritas to support a more parallel file-scan and file-copy approach to backing up GPFS filesystems, and have repeatedly hit a brick wall there over the past year. But I have a recent thread in which they note that there is a fairly
large and vocal GPFS customer who drives significant feature flow in their product. Any chance that customer is a member of the User Group? If so, I’d love to hear from you.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Paul</div>
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