Actually IBM does consider backup and ILM in the GPFS file system. Now with
the new NFS integration features in GPFS V4.1 the errors of your NAS ways
can be corrected.

KenBury AT us.ibm DOT com


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT u.washington DOT 
edu>wrote:

> I so wish we could do this. Unfortunately, backups/restores are considered
> an
> afterthought both by the vendors and customer management. In general, data
> lifecycle management has gotten to be a thornier problem over the years,
> and a lot of people deal with that by ignoring it until it's a serious
> issue.
>
> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 07:30:23PM +0000, Prather, Wanda wrote:
> > Taking opportunity to mount soapbox on this issue:
> >
> > I have SO many customer that are facing this problem.
> > Vendors of giant NAS devices *should* be providing better, decent
> solutions to back them up.
> > It's very do-able, it's just that crappy vendors don't care what they
> dump on you.
> >
> > NetApp, for example, has implemented their SnapDiff API that provides
> true incrementals, and it works.
> > I have no other reason to plug NetApp, I'm just pointing out that other
> vendors could do the same thing, if they wanted to - it's not impossible.
> >
> > I know, in most cases backup folks have hardware dropped on us without
> any input into the purchase, and we are just stuck with it.
> > BUT the only thing that is going to solve this industry-wide problem in
> the long run, is whenever tech people hear there is a purchase going down,
> we step in and tell management STOP! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?, and boycott
> vendors who inflict bad technology on us when they could do better.
> >
> > Soapbox off.
> >
> > W
>
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
> -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
> -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
> -- University of Washington School of Medicine
>



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Ken Bury