We had a whole cluster lockdown when we forgot to exclude one of the GFS partitions in netbackup when it was trying to lock the fs when it the backup started. Then I had to restart one of the nodes. I am still not sure why the lock was not released. Paras. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:23 -0500, Ning.Bao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi >> >> Does anyone have experience with using Netbackup to backup/restore >> GFS2 file system in production environment? I noticed that GFS2 is >> not on the list of file compatitbitly of netbackup 7. Is there any >> alternative backup tool for GFS2 in enterprise settings if Netbackup >> can not do it? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Ning >> >> -- >> Linux-cluster mailing list >> Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > The thing to watch out for with backup is how it affects the normal > working set of the nodes in the cluster. Often you'll get much better > performance with backup if you write a custom set of scripts which > respects the working set on each node and which also allows the backup > to proceed in parallel across the filesystem. > > What makes a good backup solution depends on the application and the I/O > pattern, so it is tricky to make any generic suggestions, > > Steve. > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
