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What if you did some funny swill where you export the GPFS and mount it
via NFS on the same box it's exported from, going through the loop back
device and backing up the NFS mount?

Thanks
Peter DrakeUnderkoffler



Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
> Doesn't appear to be Posix compliant.  It comes with a mmbackup tool to back
> it up but that appears to be intended only to send data to Tivoli TSM per
> their admin guide.
> 
> No love for Netbackup.
> 
> -M
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Peter
> DrakeUnderkoffler
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:24 AM
> To: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup doesn't seem to like IBM's GPFS <<
> Revised
> 
> 
> Don't know a thing about GPFS, is it a POSIX compliant f/s?
> How does IBM want you to back it up?
> 
> Thanks
> Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
> 
> 
> Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
> 
>>>Original note said Oracle's GPFS.  It's not Oracle's GPFS, it's IBM's GPFS
>>>on which Oracle is certified. OCFS is not certified on AIX.  It's IBM's
>>>answer to a clustered filesystem.
>>>
>>>Lots of warnings trying to back up a GPFS filesystem mounted on an AIX
> 
> v5.3
> 
>>>box:  
>>>
>>>10/19/2005 17:02:13 uscobrmfa-ug-50 uscobrmfa-ad-95  from client
>>>                    uscobrmfa-ad-95: WRN - Could not get ACL
>>>                    information for
>>>                    /oragpfs/INSTALL_FILES/10102_install/Disk1/stage/
>>>                    Components/oracle.p2k.precomp_common/10.1.0.2.0/1
>>>                    /DataFiles/mesg.11.1.jar. Errno = 22: A system
>>>                    call received a parameter that is not valid.
>>>
>>>A search for "GPFS" in the Veritas support pages doesn't yield anything.
>>>Google continues to be little help either.
>>>
>>>Anybody have any comments on this?
>>>
>>>-M
>>>
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