Protecting data in a file system using backup

GPFS provides ways to back up the file system user data and the overall file system configuration information.

You can use the mmbackup command to back up the files of a GPFS file system or the files of an independent fileset to an IBM Storage Protect server.

Alternatively, you can utilize the GPFS policy engine (mmapplypolicy command) to generate lists of files to be backed up and provide them as input to some other external storage manager.

The file system configuration information can be backed up using the mmbackupconfig command.

Note: Windows nodes do not support the mmbackup, mmapplypolicy, and mmbackupconfig commands.