Does anyone have any experience backing up a GPFS file system on Linux. A colleague had mentioned that he was at 2009 Pulse conference, and that he had heard at that conference that there was a new feature in TSM 6.1 that would allow the ba client to more efficiently backup a GPFS file system. I have not been able to find anything about this, and was wondering if anyone has any information about this. The only things I have been able to find out about TSM 6.1 and how it relates to GPFS is the following: WHAT'S NEW IN TIVOLI STORAGE MANAGER 6.1? LAN-free backups to shared disk pool using GPFS (AIX, Linux and Windows ). Support for the IBM General Purpose File System (GPFStm) for storage pool usage and LANfree access. This allows for storage agents and servers to access FILE devclass storage from multiple physical systems on the LAN. The use of GPFS allows backup traffic to be taken off of the LAN and moved to a SAN environment. This helps reduce server utilization and enables more concurrent operations by distributing them across multiple storage agents. Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks V6.1 is required to take advantage of this capability.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management V6.1 File management has been enhanced and simplified in Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management. When used in conjunction with the IBM General Parallel File Systemtm (GPFS), files managed by Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management can be moved from one GPFS storage pool (for example, fast RAID) to another GPFS storage pool (for example, slower SATA disks) while the filename will remain the same, including its directory and filesystem name. Any information you have, would be greatly appreciated. James Choate S1 IT Solutions