Hi Everyone,
I'm really hoping for some clarifcation on something I'm trying to acheive. We have a Windows file cluster with 4 volumes, each of which stores a large number of files. I'm finding the backup process is taking a very long time with the scanning on the files being a large proportion of that time.
To try and improve performance (without going down the journaling route) I'm thinking of adding three more BA-Client instances to the server so that the file scanning is multi-threaded (I have enough tape mounts to run these instances together).
However, I have a node which has all 4 filespaces worth of data and I need to create 3 more nodes and reassign the relevant filespace from the original node to the new node.
I've found an old article on the IBM website which details the following process:
Note: NodeA is the original node, NodeB is one of the new nodes
1. Rename NodeA to NodeB
2. Export the filespace from NodeB
3. Rename NodeB back to NodeA
4. Create a new node NodeB
5. Import the filespace into NodeB
Is this the way to do this? Is there a better way of doing this?
Many thanks
Phill
I'm really hoping for some clarifcation on something I'm trying to acheive. We have a Windows file cluster with 4 volumes, each of which stores a large number of files. I'm finding the backup process is taking a very long time with the scanning on the files being a large proportion of that time.
To try and improve performance (without going down the journaling route) I'm thinking of adding three more BA-Client instances to the server so that the file scanning is multi-threaded (I have enough tape mounts to run these instances together).
However, I have a node which has all 4 filespaces worth of data and I need to create 3 more nodes and reassign the relevant filespace from the original node to the new node.
I've found an old article on the IBM website which details the following process:
Note: NodeA is the original node, NodeB is one of the new nodes
1. Rename NodeA to NodeB
2. Export the filespace from NodeB
3. Rename NodeB back to NodeA
4. Create a new node NodeB
5. Import the filespace into NodeB
Is this the way to do this? Is there a better way of doing this?
Many thanks
Phill