[Ocfs2-users] OCFS2 FS with BACKUP Tools/Vendors

[Brian Kroth]

We've used Veritas NetBackup before without problems but are currently
toying with rsyncing to ZFS (running on OpenSolaris) with fs compression
and daily (ZFS) snapshots and then possibly dumping to tape.  It's
working really well so far.

All of this actually happens from a SAN based snapshot of the OCFS2
volume so that we can have a point in time backup and not hassle the
production machines with backups (even though the underlying storage is
still being taxed).

Brian

Bumpass, Brian <brian.bumpass at wachovia.com> 2009-04-02 14:30:
>    My apology up front if this has been discussed already.   I've reviewed
>    the archives back to Nov. 2005 and found little of anything.
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>    I need some information concerning support for OCFS2 by backup products.
>    Currently we use IBM/Tivoli's TSM tool.    They don't support OCFS2
>    filesystems.  And it looks like they have no intent to supporting the FS
>    in next releases.    Note... They do support their own NAS FS, GPFS.  But
>    this costs extra.
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> 
>    Additionally, the small testing I have done is that a file under an OCFS2
>    FS backs up and recovers quite nicely.    I have not tested using
>    ACL-lists.  But don't really care about those.   This issue comes down to
>    support.
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>    So... I guess what I am looking for is some indication of what the user
>    community with OCFS2 and doing backups has been along similar issues.
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>    Sorry... The environment being supported is SLES 10 SP2 64-bit on DELL &
>    HP hardware.
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>    Thanks in advance,
> 
>    -B
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