>I don't believe you can use journal-based-backup for network connected
file systems.

Very true, the journaling agent only works on local supported filesystems
because it is not aware of writes to remote filesystems so it can't add
them to the journal of files to backup.
I would advice to use a nojournal backup once a week/month with journaling
as well for the same reason Paul uses the rebase backup on the NAS.
Journaling cannot be trusted for 100% all the time, I have seen things go
wrong with several versions on the B/A client and it is difficult to
explain.


On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Paul Zarnowski <psz1 AT cornell DOT edu> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I don't believe you can use journal-based-backup for network connected
> file systems.  If you want to avoid incremental backups walking a NAS
> filesystem looking for changed files, you can look into NetApp (which TSM
> supports with snapdiff incrementals) and IBM Sonas.  Snapdiff uses a NetApp
> API which compares two snapshots, producing a list of changed files which
> TSM then backs up.  This eliminates the time it takes to "walk" the
> filesystem looking for changes, and this can dramatically speed up
> incremental backups.  We use this, but we also do a monthly walk (called a
> rebase) just to catch any edge cases that snapdiff misses.
>
> I believe Isilon also has a similar unsupported API, but as it was not
> supported we opted not to go with Isilon.
>
> ..Paul
>
>
> At 11:42 AM 8/12/2016, Michael P Hizny wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >Does anyone know a way to use journaling in TSM on a networked file
> system.
> >If you go through the wizard, you can select to journal the local file
> >systems, but there is no option to journal network connected file systems.
> >We can back them up by specifying them in the opt file as:
> >
> >DOMAIN "\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\folder1"
> >DOMAIN "\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\folder2"But can you set up and use journaling
> on them?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mike
> >
> >Michael Hizny
> >Binghamton University
> >mhizny AT binghamton DOT edu
>
>
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