Skylar,

Can you give us details on how you setup the Isilon to give a TSM node
authority to back up the individual mount points?  My SAN/Isilon guy has
tried setting up a standard TSM node but all attempts at backing up mounted
filesystems blocks him with "access denied" errors.  We are very new to
Isilon so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Feel free to email me directly if you want to take this discussion
offline/off-list.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT u.washington DOT 
edu>
wrote:

> Hi Zoltan,
>
> We backup two large Isilon clusters (one 715TB, the other 2PB) using TSM.
> We looked at NDMP at ran away quickly due to the full backup requirement.
> Instead, we worked with the data owners to setup a data organization scheme
> before hand, then back up individual directories as filespaces using TSM
> NFS clients connected over 10GbE. Currently we have five of these clients,
> and have accomodated bursts of as much as 50TB of changed/new data in a day
> using them. The only nemesis we have are folks who create lots of tiny
> files; fortunately, though, over time these incidents have gotten less
> frequent due to education and improvements in genomic tools.
>
> We've been asking for Isilon to make a native TSM client since before they
> were bought by EMC, and unfortunately they're just not intererested. Now
> that EMC owns them, I think the possibility of a native client is even more
> remote.
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:00:28AM -0500, Zoltan Forray wrote:
> > Anyone have experience backing up an EMC Isilon and can share
> war-stories,
> > methods, etc?
>
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
> -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
> -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
> -- University of Washington School of Medicine
>



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