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Re: [ADSM-L] snapshotroot for scheduled backups

2012-08-15 12:42:16
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] snapshotroot for scheduled backups
From: Cameron Hanover <chanover AT UMICH DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:22:14 -0400
Better yet, an ETA?

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Cameron Hanover
chanover AT umich DOT edu

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On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Shawn Drew wrote:

> "Support for vFiler volumes with be in the TSM 6.40 client. Note that this
> support will require ONTAP version 8.1.1 or greater."
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> Wow, this is huge!  Is there a feature list posted for 6.4 somewhere?
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> Regards,
> Shawn
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> "Thanks for taking the time to respond.  I'm thinking that if I want to do
> this, I'll probably abandon the TSM Scheduler in favor of home-grown
> scripting.  But I may just wait to see if snapdiff gets supported on
> vFilers, at which point this issue becomes moot for me."
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> Support for vFiler volumes with be in the TSM 6.40 client. Note that this
> support will require ONTAP version 8.1.1 or greater.
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> Regards,
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> Pete Tanenhaus
> Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
> email: tanenhau AT us.ibm DOT com
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> "Those who refuse to challenge authority are condemned to conform to it"
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> From:   Paul Zarnowski <psz1 AT CORNELL DOT EDU>
> To:     ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu,
> Date:   08/08/2012 11:57 AM
> Subject:        Re: snapshotroot for scheduled backups
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> Thanks Allen.
> 
> At 10:05 AM 8/8/2012, Allen S. Rout wrote:
>> You're in the position that the snapshot you want to use has a stable
>> name.  There are folks who have snapshots named related to the date of
>> consistency-point.
> 
> As it turns out, NetApp / nSeries snapshots do have predictable/static
> names.
> 
>> If you're already preschedcmding, you might use that step to calculate
>> the command lines to run the per-filespace "dsmc incr" lines, drop
>> them in a temporary script, and then run that as a COMMAND schedule
>> instead of an INCREMENTAL sched.
> 
> At that point, I'm not sure what the value would be of using the TSM
> scheduler, as opposed to (e.g.) cron.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to respond.  I'm thinking that if I want to do
> this, I'll probably abandon the TSM Scheduler in favor of home-grown
> scripting.  But I may just wait to see if snapdiff gets supported on
> vFilers, at which point this issue becomes moot for me.
> 
> ..Paul
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