[OpenAFS] backup strategy

Mattias Pantzare pantzer@ludd.ltu.se
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:49:30 +0100


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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Harald Barth <haba@kth.se> wrote:

>
> > and with NetWorker, it was (it probably still is) impossible to save
> > from a pipe, requiring the use of temporary disk for the purpose.
>
> TSM as shipped by IBM can't either, but there is a TSM API. Then
> tsmpipe was written in Ume=C3=A5. Thanks again!
>

And in Lule=C3=A5 we are using the TSM API to do backups at the file level.=
 We
detect if a volume has changed so it is very fast for static volumes.

I don't know if the code has been published but we can do that if anyone is
interested.

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te">On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Harald Barth <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a=
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&gt; and with NetWorker, it was (it probably still is) impossible to save<b=
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&gt; from a pipe, requiring the use of temporary disk for the purpose.<br>
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</span>TSM as shipped by IBM can&#39;t either, but there is a TSM API. Then=
<br>
tsmpipe was written in Ume=C3=A5. Thanks again!<br></blockquote><div><br></=
div><div>And in Lule=C3=A5 we are using the TSM API to do backups at the fi=
le level. We detect if a volume has changed so it is very fast for static v=
olumes.<br><br>I don&#39;t know if the code has been published but we can d=
o that if anyone is interested.=C2=A0</div></div></div></div>

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