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



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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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