<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regarding mmbackup and TSM INCLUDE/EXCLUDE,
I found this doc by googling...</font><br><a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699569"><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699569</font></a><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Which says, among other things and includes
many ifs,and,buts : </font><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="Helvetica Neue">"...
include and exclude options are interpreted differently by the IBM Spectrum
Scale mmbackup command and by the IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client..."
</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I think mmbackup tries to handle usual,
sensible, variants of the TSM directives that can be directly "translated"
to more logical SQL, so you don't have to follow all the twists, but if
it isn't working as you expected... RTFM... </font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">OTOH... If you are like or can
work with the customize-the-policy-rules approach -- that is good too and
makes possible finer grain controls.</font><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Jaime Pinto"
<pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"gpfsug main discussion
list" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org>, "Marc
A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">05/29/2017 04:01 PM</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [gpfsug-discuss]
mmbackup with TSM INCLUDE/EXCLUDE was Re: What
is an independent fileset? was: mmbackup with fileset : scope errors</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>Quoting "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com>:<br><br>> Easier than hacking mmbackup or writing/editing policy rules,<br>><br>> mmbackup interprets<br>> your TSM INCLUDE/EXCLUDE configuration statements -- so that
is a<br>> supported and recommended way of doing business...<br><br>Finally got some time to resume testing on this<br><br>Here is the syntax used (In this test I want to backup /wosgpfs/backmeup
only)<br>mmbackup /wosgpfs -N wos-gateway02-ib0 -s /dev/shm --tsm-errorlog <br>$logfile -L 4<br><br>As far as I can tell, the EXCLUDE statements in the TSM configuration <br>(dsm.opt) are being *ignored*. I tried a couple of formats:<br><br>1) cat dsm.opt<br>SERVERNAME TAPENODE3<br>DOMAIN "/wosgpfs/backmeup"<br>INCLExcl "/sysadmin/BA/ba-wos/bin/inclexcl"<br><br>1a) cat /sysadmin/BA/ba-wos/bin/inclexcl<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/ignore /wosgpfs/junk /wosgpfs/project<br><br>1b) cat /sysadmin/BA/ba-wos/bin/inclexcl<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/ignore<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/junk<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/project<br><br>2) cat dsm.opt<br>SERVERNAME TAPENODE3<br>DOMAIN "/wosgpfs/backmeup"<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/ignore<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/junk<br>exclude.dir /wosgpfs/project<br><br>3) cat dsm.opt<br>SERVERNAME TAPENODE3<br>DOMAIN "/wosgpfs/backmeup -/wosgpfs/ignore -/wosgpfs/junk -/wosgpfs/project"<br><br><br>In another words, all the contents under /wosgpfs are being traversed <br>and going to the TSM backup. Furthermore, even with "-L 4" mmbackup
is <br>not logging the list of files being sent to the TSM backup anywhere on
<br>the client side. I only get that information from the TSM server side <br>(get filespace). I know that all contents of /wosgpfs are being <br>traversed because I have a tail on <br>/wosgpfs/.mmbackupShadow.1.TAPENODE3.filesys.update<br><br><br><br>><br>> If that doesn't do it for your purposes... You're into some light<br>> hacking... So look inside the mmbackup and tsbackup33 scripts and
you'll<br>> find some DEBUG variables that should allow for keeping work and temp<br>> files around ... including the generated policy rules.<br>> I'm calling this hacking "light", because I don't think
you'll need to<br>> change the scripts, but just look around and see how you can use what's<br>> there to achieve your legitimate purposes. Even so, you will
have crossed<br>> a line where IBM support is "informal" at best.<br><br>On the other hand I am having better luck with the customer rules <br>file. The modified template below will traverse only the <br>/wosgpfs/backmeup, as intended, and only backup files modified under <br>that path. I guess I have a working solution that I will try at scale <br>now.<br><br>[root@wos-gateway02 bin]# cat dsm.opt<br>SERVERNAME TAPENODE3<br>ARCHSYMLINKASFILE NO<br>DOMAIN "/wosgpfs/backmeup"<br><br>__________________________________________________________<br>/* Auto-generated GPFS policy rules file<br> * Generated on Wed May 24 12:12:51 2017<br> */<br><br>/* Server rules for backup server 1<br> *** TAPENODE3 ***<br> */<br>RULE EXTERNAL LIST 'mmbackup.1.TAPENODE3' EXEC <br>'/wosgpfs/.mmbackupCfg/BAexecScript.wosgpfs' OPTS <br>'"/wosgpfs/.mmbackupShadow.1.TAPENODE3.filesys.update" <br>"-servername=TAPENODE3" <br>"-auditlogname=/wosgpfs/mmbackup.audit.wosgpfs.TAPENODE3" "NONE"'<br>RULE 'BackupRule' LIST 'mmbackup.1.TAPENODE3' DIRECTORIES_PLUS<br> SHOW(VARCHAR(MODIFICATION_TIME) || ' ' || VARCHAR(CHANGE_TIME)
|| ' ' ||<br> VARCHAR(FILE_SIZE)
|| ' ' || VARCHAR(FILESET_NAME) ||<br> ' ' || (CASE WHEN XATTR('dmapi.IBMObj')
IS NOT NULL THEN 'migrat'<br>
WHEN XATTR('dmapi.IBMPMig') IS NOT NULL THEN 'premig'<br>
ELSE 'resdnt' END ))<br> WHERE<br> (<br> NOT<br> ( (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.mmbackup%') OR<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.mmLockDir' AND
MODE LIKE 'd%') OR<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.mmLockDir/%')
OR<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.g2w/%') OR
/* DO NOT TRAVERSE OR BACKUP */<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/ignore/%') OR
/* DO NOT TRAVERSE OR BACKUP */<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/junk/%') OR
/* DO NOT TRAVERSE OR BACKUP */<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/project/%') OR
/* DO NOT TRAVERSE OR BACKUP */<br> (MODE LIKE 's%')<br> )<br> )<br> AND<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/backmeup/%')
/* TRAVERSE AND BACKUP */<br> AND<br> (MISC_ATTRIBUTES LIKE '%u%')<br> AND<br> (<br> NOT<br> ( (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.SpaceMan' AND MODE
LIKE 'd%') OR<br> (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.SpaceMan/%')<br> )<br> )<br> AND (NOT (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.TsmCacheDir' AND MODE
LIKE 'd%') <br>AND NOT (PATH_NAME LIKE '/%/.TsmCacheDir/%'))<br>_________________________________________________________<br><br>[root@wos-gateway02 bin]# time ./mmbackup-wos.sh<br>--------------------------------------------------------<br>mmbackup: Backup of /wosgpfs begins at Mon May 29 15:54:47 EDT 2017.<br>--------------------------------------------------------<br>Mon May 29 15:54:49 2017 mmbackup:using user supplied policy rules: <br>/sysadmin/BA/ba-wos/bin/mmbackupRules.wosgpfs<br>Mon May 29 15:54:49 2017 mmbackup:Scanning file system wosgpfs<br>Mon May 29 15:54:52 2017 mmbackup:Determining file system changes for <br>wosgpfs [TAPENODE3].<br>Mon May 29 15:54:52 2017 mmbackup:changed=3, expired=0, unsupported=0 <br>for server [TAPENODE3]<br>Mon May 29 15:54:52 2017 mmbackup:Sending files to the TSM server [3 <br>changed, 0 expired].<br>mmbackup: TSM Summary Information:<br>
Total number of objects inspected:
3<br>
Total number of objects backed up:
3<br>
Total number of objects updated:
0<br>
Total number of objects rebound:
0<br>
Total number of objects deleted:
0<br>
Total number of objects expired:
0<br>
Total number of objects failed:
0<br>
Total number of objects encrypted:
0<br>
Total number of bytes inspected:
4096<br>
Total number of bytes transferred:
512<br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>mmbackup: Backup of /wosgpfs completed successfully at Mon May 29 <br>15:54:56 EDT 2017.<br>----------------------------------------------------------<br><br>real
0m9.276s<br>user
0m2.906s<br>sys
0m3.212s<br><br>_________________________________________________________<br><br><br>Thanks for all the help<br>Jaime<br><br><br><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> From: Jez Tucker <jtucker@pixitmedia.com><br>> To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>> Date: 05/18/2017 03:33 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] What is an
independent fileset? was:<br>> mmbackup with fileset : scope errors<br>> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi<br>><br>> When mmbackup has passed the preflight stage (pretty quickly)
you'll<br>> find the autogenerated ruleset as /var/mmfs/mmbackup/.mmbackupRules*<br>><br>> Best,<br>><br>> Jez<br>><br>><br>> On 18/05/17 20:02, Jaime Pinto wrote:<br>> Ok Mark<br>><br>> I'll follow your option 2) suggestion, and capture what mmbackup is
using<br>> as a rule first, then modify it.<br>><br>> I imagine by 'capture' you are referring to the -L n level I use?<br>><br>> -L n<br>> Controls the level of information
displayed by the<br>> mmbackup command. Larger values
indicate the<br>> display of more detailed information.
n should be one of<br>> the following values:<br>><br>> 3<br>> Displays
the same information as 2, plus each<br>> candidate
file and the applicable rule.<br>><br>> 4<br>> Displays
the same information as 3, plus each<br>> explicitly
EXCLUDEed or LISTed<br>> file,
and the applicable rule.<br>><br>> 5<br>> Displays
the same information as 4, plus the<br>> attributes
of candidate and EXCLUDEed or<br>> LISTed
files.<br>><br>> 6<br>> Displays
the same information as 5, plus<br>> non-candidate
files and their attributes.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Jaime<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Quoting "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com>:<br>><br>> 1. As I surmised, and I now have verification from Mr. mmbackup, mmbackup<br>> wants to support incremental backups (using what it calls its shadow<br>> database) and keep both your sanity and its sanity -- so mmbackup
limits<br>> you to either full filesystem or full inode-space (independent fileset.)<br>> If you want to do something else, okay, but you have to be careful
and be<br>> sure of yourself. IBM will not be able to jump in and help you if
and when<br>><br>> it comes time to restore and you discover that your backup(s) were
not<br>> complete.<br>><br>> 2. If you decide you're a big boy (or woman or XXX) and want to do
some<br>> hacking ... Fine... But even then, I suggest you do the smallest
hack<br>> that will mostly achieve your goal...<br>> DO NOT think you can create a custom policy rules list for mmbackup
out of<br>><br>> thin air.... Capture the rules mmbackup creates and make small
changes to<br>><br>> that --<br>> And as with any disaster recovery plan..... Plan your Test
and Test your<br>><br>> Plan.... Then do some dry run recoveries before you really "need"
to do a<br>><br>> real recovery.<br>><br>> I only even sugest this because Jaime says he has a huge filesystem
with<br>> several dependent filesets and he really, really wants to do a partial<br>> backup, without first copying or re-organizing the filesets.<br>><br>> HMMM.... otoh... if you have one or more dependent filesets that are<br>> smallish, and/or you don't need the backups -- create independent<br>> filesets, copy/move/delete the data, rename, voila.<br>><br>><br>><br>> From: "Jaime Pinto" <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca><br>> To: "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com><br>> Cc: "gpfsug main discussion list" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>> Date: 05/18/2017 12:36 PM<br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] What is an
independent fileset? was:<br>> mmbackup with fileset : scope errors<br>><br>><br>><br>> Marc<br>><br>> The -P option may be a very good workaround, but I still have to test
it.<br>><br>> I'm currently trying to craft the mm rule, as minimalist as possible,<br>> however I'm not sure about what attributes mmbackup expects to see.<br>><br>> Below is my first attempt. It would be nice to get comments from<br>> somebody familiar with the inner works of mmbackup.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Jaime<br>><br>><br>> /* A macro to abbreviate VARCHAR */<br>> define([vc],[VARCHAR($1)])<br>><br>> /* Define three external lists */<br>> RULE EXTERNAL LIST 'allfiles' EXEC<br>> '/scratch/r/root/mmpolicyRules/mmpolicyExec-list'<br>><br>> /* Generate a list of all files, directories, plus all other file<br>> system objects,<br>> like symlinks, named pipes, etc. Include the owner's
id with each<br>> object and<br>> sort them by the owner's id */<br>><br>> RULE 'r1' LIST 'allfiles'<br>> DIRECTORIES_PLUS<br>> SHOW('-u' vc(USER_ID) || ' -a' ||
vc(ACCESS_TIME) || ' -m' ||<br>> vc(MODIFICATION_TIME) || ' -s ' || vc(FILE_SIZE))<br>> FROM POOL 'system'<br>> FOR FILESET('sysadmin3')<br>><br>> /* Files in special filesets, such as those excluded, are never traversed<br>> */<br>> RULE 'ExcSpecialFile' EXCLUDE<br>> FOR FILESET('scratch3','project3')<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Quoting "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com>:<br>><br>> Jaime,<br>><br>> While we're waiting for the mmbackup expert to weigh in, notice
that<br>> the<br>> mmbackup command does have a -P option that allows you to provide
a<br>> customized policy rules file.<br>><br>> So... a fairly safe hack is to do a trial mmbackup run, capture the<br>> automatically generated policy file, and then augment it with FOR<br>> FILESET('fileset-I-want-to-backup') clauses.... Then run the mmbackup<br>> for<br>> real with your customized policy file.<br>><br>> mmbackup uses mmapplypolicy which by itself is happy to limit its<br>> directory scan to a particular fileset by using<br>><br>> mmapplypolicy /path-to-any-directory-within-a-gpfs-filesystem --scope<br>> fileset ....<br>><br>> However, mmbackup probably has other worries and for simpliciity and<br>> helping make sure you get complete, sensible backups, apparently has<br>> imposed some restrictions to preserve sanity (yours and our support<br>> team!<br>> ;-) ) ... (For example, suppose you were doing incremental
backups,<br>> starting at different paths each time? -- happy to do so, but when<br>> disaster strikes and you want to restore -- you'll end up confused<br>> and/or<br>> unhappy!)<br>><br>> "converting from one fileset to another" --- sorry there
is no such<br>> thing.<br>> Filesets are kinda like little filesystems within filesystems.
Moving<br>> a<br>> file from one fileset to another requires a copy operation.
There is<br>> no<br>> fast move nor hardlinking.<br>><br>> --marc<br>><br>><br>><br>> From: "Jaime Pinto" <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca><br>> To: "gpfsug main discussion list"<br>> <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org>,<br>> "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com><br>> Date: 05/18/2017 09:58 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] What is an
independent fileset?<br>> was:<br>> mmbackup with fileset : scope errors<br>><br>><br>><br>> Thanks for the explanation Mark and Luis,<br>><br>> It begs the question: why filesets are created as dependent by<br>> default, if the adverse repercussions can be so great afterward? Even<br>> in my case, where I manage GPFS and TSM deployments (and I have been<br>> around for a while), didn't realize at all that not adding and extra<br>> option at fileset creation time would cause me huge trouble with<br>> scaling later on as I try to use mmbackup.<br>><br>> When you have different groups to manage file systems and backups
that<br>> don't read each-other's manuals ahead of time then we have a really<br>> bad recipe.<br>><br>> I'm looking forward to your explanation as to why mmbackup cares one<br>> way or another.<br>><br>> I'm also hoping for a hint as to how to configure backup exclusion<br>> rules on the TSM side to exclude fileset traversing on the GPFS side.<br>> Is mmbackup smart enough (actually smarter than TSM client itself)
to<br>> read the exclusion rules on the TSM configuration and apply them<br>> before traversing?<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Jaime<br>><br>> Quoting "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com>:<br>><br>> When I see "independent fileset" (in Spectrum/GPFS/Scale)
I always<br>> think<br>> and try to read that as "inode space".<br>><br>> An "independent fileset" has all the attributes of an (older-fashioned)<br>> dependent fileset PLUS all of its files are represented by inodes
that<br>> are<br>> in a separable range of inode numbers - this allows GPFS to efficiently<br>> do<br>> snapshots of just that inode-space (uh... independent fileset)...<br>><br>> And... of course the files of dependent filesets must also be<br>> represented<br>> by inodes -- those inode numbers are within the inode-space of whatever<br>> the containing independent fileset is... as was chosen when you created<br>> the fileset.... If you didn't say otherwise, inodes come from
the<br>> default "root" fileset....<br>><br>> Clear as your bath-water, no?<br>><br>> So why does mmbackup care one way or another ??? Stay tuned....<br>><br>> BTW - if you look at the bits of the inode numbers carefully --- you<br>> may<br>> not immediately discern what I mean by a "separable range of
inode<br>> numbers" -- (very technical hint) you may need to permute the
bit order<br>> before you discern a simple pattern...<br>><br>><br>><br>> From: "Luis Bolinches" <luis.bolinches@fi.ibm.com><br>> To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>> Cc: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>> Date: 05/18/2017 02:10 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup
with fileset : scope<br>> errors<br>> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>><br>><br>><br>> Hi<br>><br>> There is no direct way to convert the one fileset that is dependent
to<br>> independent or viceversa.<br>><br>> I would suggest to take a look to chapter 5 of the 2014 redbook, lots<br>> of<br>> definitions about GPFS ILM including filesets<br>> </font></tt><a href=http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248254.html?Open><tt><font size=2>http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248254.html?Open</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>Is not the<br>> only<br>> place that is explained but I honestly believe is a good single start<br>> point. It also needs an update as does nto have anything on CES nor<br>> ESS,<br>> so anyone in this list feel free to give feedback on that page people<br>> with<br>> funding decisions listen there.<br>><br>> So you are limited to either migrate the data from that fileset to
a<br>> new<br>> independent fileset (multiple ways to do that) or use the TSM client<br>> config.<br>><br>> ----- Original message -----<br>> From: "Jaime Pinto" <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca><br>> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>> To: "gpfsug main discussion list" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org>,<br>> "Jaime Pinto" <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca><br>> Cc:<br>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup with fileset : scope errors<br>> Date: Thu, May 18, 2017 4:43 AM<br>><br>> There is hope. See reference link below:<br>><br>><br>> </font></tt><a href=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.1.1/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r11.ins.doc/bl1ins_tsm_fsvsfset.htm><tt><font size=2>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.1.1/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r11.ins.doc/bl1ins_tsm_fsvsfset.htm</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> The issue has to do with dependent vs. independent filesets, something<br>> I didn't even realize existed until now. Our filesets are dependent<br>> (for no particular reason), so I have to find a way to turn them into<br>> independent.<br>><br>> The proper option syntax is "--scope inodespace", and the
error<br>> message actually flagged that out, however I didn't know how to<br>> interpret what I saw:<br>><br>><br>> # mmbackup /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 -N tsm-helper1-ib0 -s /dev/shm<br>> --scope inodespace --tsm-errorlog $logfile -L 2<br>> --------------------------------------------------------<br>> mmbackup: Backup of /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 begins at Wed May 17<br>> 21:27:43 EDT 2017.<br>> --------------------------------------------------------<br>> Wed May 17 21:27:45 2017 mmbackup:mmbackup: Backing up *dependent*<br>> fileset sysadmin3 is not supported<br>> Wed May 17 21:27:45 2017 mmbackup:This fileset is not suitable for<br>> fileset level backup. exit 1<br>> --------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> Will post the outcome.<br>> Jaime<br>><br>><br>><br>> Quoting "Jaime Pinto" <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca>:<br>><br>> Quoting "Luis Bolinches" <luis.bolinches@fi.ibm.com>:<br>><br>> Hi<br>><br>> have you tried to add exceptions on the TSM client config file?<br>><br>> Hey Luis,<br>><br>> That would work as well (mechanically), however it's not elegant or<br>> efficient. When you have over 1PB and 200M files on scratch it will<br>> take many hours and several helper nodes to traverse that fileset
just<br>> to be negated by TSM. In fact exclusion on TSM are just as<br>> inefficient.<br>> Considering that I want to keep project and sysadmin on different<br>> domains then it's much worst, since we have to traverse and exclude<br>> scratch & (project|sysadmin) twice, once to capture sysadmin and
again<br>> to capture project.<br>><br>> If I have to use exclusion rules it has to rely sole on gpfs rules,<br>> and<br>> somehow not traverse scratch at all.<br>><br>> I suspect there is a way to do this properly, however the examples
on<br>> the gpfs guide and other references are not exhaustive. They only
show<br>> a couple of trivial cases.<br>><br>> However my situation is not unique. I suspect there are may facilities<br>> having to deal with backup of HUGE filesets.<br>><br>> So the search is on.<br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Jaime<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Assuming your GPFS dir is /IBM/GPFS and your fileset to exclude is<br>> linked<br>> on /IBM/GPFS/FSET1<br>><br>> dsm.sys<br>> ...<br>><br>> DOMAIN /IBM/GPFS<br>> EXCLUDE.DIR /IBM/GPFS/FSET1<br>><br>><br>> From: "Jaime Pinto" <pinto@scinet.utoronto.ca><br>> To: "gpfsug main discussion list"<br>> <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>> Date: 17-05-17 23:44<br>> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup with
fileset : scope errors<br>> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>><br>><br>><br>> I have a g200 /gpfs/sgfs1 filesystem with 3 filesets:<br>> * project3<br>> * scratch3<br>> * sysadmin3<br>><br>> I have no problems mmbacking up /gpfs/sgfs1 (or sgfs1), however we<br>> have no need or space to include *scratch3* on TSM.<br>><br>> Question: how to craft the mmbackup command to backup<br>> /gpfs/sgfs1/project3 and/or /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 only?<br>><br>> Below are 3 types of errors:<br>><br>> 1) mmbackup /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 -N tsm-helper1-ib0 -s /dev/shm<br>> --tsm-errorlog $logfile -L 2<br>><br>> ERROR: mmbackup: Options /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 and --scope filesystem<br>> cannot be specified at the same time.<br>><br>> 2) mmbackup /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 -N tsm-helper1-ib0 -s /dev/shm<br>> --scope inodespace --tsm-errorlog $logfile -L 2<br>><br>> ERROR: Wed May 17 16:27:11 2017 mmbackup:mmbackup: Backing up<br>> dependent fileset sysadmin3 is not supported<br>> Wed May 17 16:27:11 2017 mmbackup:This fileset is not suitable for<br>> fileset level backup. exit 1<br>><br>> 3) mmbackup /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 -N tsm-helper1-ib0 -s /dev/shm<br>> --scope filesystem --tsm-errorlog $logfile -L 2<br>><br>> ERROR: mmbackup: Options /gpfs/sgfs1/sysadmin3 and --scope filesystem<br>> cannot be specified at the same time.<br>><br>> These examples don't really cover my case:<br>><br>><br>><br>> </font></tt><a href=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1adm_mmbackup.htm#mmbackup__mmbackup_examples><tt><font size=2>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1adm_mmbackup.htm#mmbackup__mmbackup_examples</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>><br>><br>><br>></font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>><br>><br>> Thanks<br>> Jaime<br>><br>><br>> ************************************<br>> TELL US ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS STORIES<br>> </font></tt><a href=http://www.scinethpc.ca/testimonials><tt><font size=2>http://www.scinethpc.ca/testimonials</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>> ************************************<br>> ---<br>> Jaime Pinto<br>> SciNet HPC Consortium - Compute/Calcul Canada<br>> </font></tt><a href=www.scinet.utoronto.ca><tt><font size=2>www.scinet.utoronto.ca</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>- </font></tt><a href=www.computecanada.ca><tt><font size=2>www.computecanada.ca</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>> University of Toronto<br>> 661 University Ave. (MaRS), Suite 1140<br>> Toronto, ON, M5G1M1<br>> P: 416-978-2755<br>> C: 416-505-1477<br>><br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent using IMP at SciNet Consortium, University of<br>> Toronto.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>> </font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><font size=2>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> Ellei edell ole toisin mainittu: / Unless stated otherwise above:<br>> Oy IBM Finland Ab<br>> PL 265, 00101 Helsinki, Finland<br>> Business ID, Y-tunnus: 0195876-3<br>> Registered in Finland<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ************************************<br>> TELL US ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS STORIES<br>> </font></tt><a href=http://www.scinethpc.ca/testimonials><tt><font size=2>http://www.scinethpc.ca/testimonials</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>> ************************************<br>> ---<br>> Jaime Pinto<br>> SciNet HPC Consortium - Compute/Calcul Canada<br>> </font></tt><a href=www.scinet.utoronto.ca><tt><font size=2>www.scinet.utoronto.ca</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>- </font></tt><a href=www.computecanada.ca><tt><font size=2>www.computecanada.ca</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>> University of Toronto<br>> 661 University Ave. (MaRS), Suite 1140<br>> Toronto, ON, M5G1M1<br>> P: 416-978-2755<br>> C: 416-505-1477<br>><br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent using IMP at SciNet Consortium, University of<br>> Toronto.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>> </font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><font size=2>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> ************************************<br>> TELL US ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS
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