<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt" ><div dir="ltr" >The only requirement for your own backup policy is that it finds the files you want to back up and skips those that you do not want to back up. It is no different than any policy that you would use with the GPFS policy engine.</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: "T.A. Yeep" <yeep@robust.my><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup with own policy<br>Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2021 7:08 AM<br>
<div dir="ltr" ><div dir="ltr" >Hi Dr. Martin,
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<div>You can refer to the Administrator Guide > Chapter 30 > Policies for automating file management, or access via the link below. If you downloaded a PDF, it starts with page 487.</div>
<div><a href="https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=management-policy-rules" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=management-policy-rules</a></div>
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<div>There a quite a number of examples in that chapter too which can help you establish a good understanding of how to write one yourself.</div></div>
<div><div dir="ltr" >On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:10 PM Ulrich Sibiller <<a href="mailto:u.sibiller@science-computing.de" target="_blank">u.sibiller@science-computing.de</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" >Hallo,<br><br>mmbackup offers -P to specify an own policy. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find documentation how<br>that policy has to look like.<br><br>I mean, if I grab the policy generated automatically by mmbackup it looks like this:<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------<br>/* Auto-generated GPFS policy rules file<br> * Generated on Sat May 29 15:10:46 2021<br> */<br><br>/* Server rules for backup server 1<br> *** back5_2 ***<br> */<br>RULE EXTERNAL LIST 'mmbackup.1.back5_2' EXEC '/net/gpfso/fs1/.mmbackupCfg/BAexecScript.gpfsofs1'<br>OPTS '"/net/gpfso/fs1/.mmbackupShadow.1.back5_2.filesys.update" "-servername=back5_2"<br>"-auditlogname=/net/gpfso/fs1/mmbackup.audit.gpfsofs1.back5_2" "NONE"'<br>RULE 'BackupRule' LIST 'mmbackup.1.back5_2' DIRECTORIES_PLUS<br> SHOW(VARCHAR(MODIFICATION_TIME) || ' ' || VARCHAR(CHANGE_TIME) || ' ' ||<br> VARCHAR(FILE_SIZE) || ' ' || VARCHAR(FILESET_NAME) ||<br> ' ' || 'resdnt' )<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> (MODE LIKE 's%')<br> )<br> )<br> AND<br> (MISC_ATTRIBUTES LIKE '%u%')<br> AND<br>...<br>---------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>If I want use an own policy what of all that is required for mmbackup to find the information it needs?<br><br>Uli<br>--<br>Science + Computing AG<br>Vorstandsvorsitzender/Chairman of the board of management:<br>Dr. Martin Matzke<br>Vorstand/Board of Management:<br>Matthias Schempp, Sabine Hohenstein<br>Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats/<br>Chairman of the Supervisory Board:<br>Philippe Miltin<br>Aufsichtsrat/Supervisory Board:<br>Martin Wibbe, Ursula Morgenstern<br>Sitz/Registered Office: Tuebingen<br>Registergericht/Registration Court: Stuttgart<br>Registernummer/Commercial Register No.: HRB 382196<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at <a href="http://spectrumscale.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">spectrumscale.org</a><br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></blockquote></div>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" ><b><font size="2" >T.A. Yeep</font></b></font></div></div>
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