Does anyone have any experience backing up a GPFS file system on Linux.
A colleague had mentioned that he was at 2009 Pulse conference, and that he had 
heard at that conference that there was a new feature in TSM 6.1 that would 
allow the ba client to more efficiently backup a GPFS file system.  I have not 
been able to find anything about this, and was wondering if anyone has any 
information about this.
The only things I have been able to find out about TSM 6.1 and how it relates 
to GPFS is the following:
WHAT'S NEW IN TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER 6.1?
LAN-free backups to shared disk pool using GPFS (AIX, Linux and Windows ).
Support for the IBM General Purpose File System (GPFStm) for storage pool usage 
and     LANfree access. This allows for storage agents and servers to access 
FILE devclass storage from multiple physical systems on the LAN. The use of 
GPFS allows backup traffic to be taken off of the LAN and moved to a SAN 
environment. This helps reduce server utilization and enables more concurrent 
operations by distributing them across multiple storage agents. Tivoli Storage 
Manager for Storage Area Networks V6.1 is required to take advantage of this 
capability.


IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management V6.1

File management has been enhanced and simplified in Tivoli Storage Manager for 
Space
Management. When used in conjunction with the IBM General Parallel File 
Systemtm (GPFS),
files managed by Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management can be moved from 
one GPFS
storage pool (for example, fast RAID) to another GPFS storage pool (for 
example, slower SATA
disks) while the filename will remain the same, including its directory and 
filesystem name.

Any information you have, would be greatly appreciated.

James Choate
S1 IT Solutions