Monday, November 6, 2006

CDP For Unix?

Has anyone heard of when (if ever) Continuous Data Protection for Files will be available on the Unix platform? I could really use this feature with my GPFS system. Since the application creates hundreds of meta data files daily and is proprietary (hence no TDP support) I am getting killed by the backup timeframe since the each volume has in excess of 4 million files already and incrementals take close to 48hrs. to finish. Anyone heard anything at symposiums or seminars?
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  1. AnonymousNovember 22, 2006 at 8:19 AM

    If you're worried about the length of the incremental backups, it seems like you'd be more interested in journal-based backups. This now exists for AIX (JFS2 only, I believe).

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  2. AnonymousDecember 7, 2006 at 1:28 PM

    How does the time break out? Is all the time spent making stat calls?

    Is communication between the B/A client and the TSM server contributing to the 48 hours?

    What have you done so far to speed the process up?

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