dsmISI MAGS allows fast backup and restore of large production file services (e. g. NetApp) with billions of objects in combination with IBM Spectrum Protect (ISP).

IBM Spectrum Protect is still the only software capable of continuously backing up file systems entirely incrementally. With extremely large file systems, containing many millions or even billions of objects, this approach, however, does have its limits. Very often the time used for identifying changed, new or deleted objects alone takes days or even weeks – and thus renders a service level which requires a daily backup cycle which is impossible to achieve.

dsmISI MAGS (Massive Attack General Storage) solves this fundamental problem by accelerating identification of changes and the resulting movement of data by orders of magnitude.

Benefits of dsmISI MAGS:

• Is easy to install, configure, test and monitor
• Doesn’t alter the backup data structure
• Scales across a practically unlimited number of ISP client machines
• Doesn’t require change in backup structure.
• Is continuously optimizing its own configuration iorder to use available resources (CPU, RAM, scan depth, etc.) to greatest possible effect
• Can, if applicable, use snapshots of a file system in order to avoid errors resulting from user activity during backup
• Comes with a convenient graphical user interface which supports configuration and shows detailed information about running jobs.
• Is compatible with most file servers and ISP client software version 6.3 or later
• When backing up scale-out file servers (like Dell EMC Isilon), dsmISI MAGS can automatically utilize all reachable cluster nodes to further accelerate backup.
• In most cases using dsmISI MAGS doesn’t require additional hardware for ISP clients or servers already in use
• Even extremely large and busy file systems can be backed up incrementally within a reasonable timespan using regular ISP incremental backup when controlled by dsmISI MAGS

dsmISI MAGS integration

STEFAN RADTKE´s BLOG - Backup OneFS Data over NFS/CIFS with TSM

23 January 2015 - http://stefanradtke.blogspot.de/2015/01/backup-onefs-data-over-nfscifs-with-tsm.html

In several of my previous posts I have mentioned the shortcomings of NDMP. One of it is the lack of support for an incremental forever strategy, a feature that TSM users typically used to have. Furthermore, TSM support for NDMP is way below average, compared to other backup Software solutions (for example, EMC Networker can create and maintain OneFS Snapshots, roll them over to tape and index them. Watch out for my blogpost here soon).

One way around this would be to backup the files in the filesystem via NFS or CIFS. To avoid the required file system scan (or treewalk), the ideal solution would be something like the isi_change_list feature mentioned in a previous post. However, the first version of that change_list API has not shown been very efficient with TSM so we have to wait for the next version which we’ll anticipate at the end of 2015. Until then, the only way to accelerate a backup via CIFS/NFS is massive parallelism. General Storage has developed a solution for this called MAGS – Massive Attack General Storage.

MAGS
During backup, TSM scans through file systems, compares their content with what it already backed up and transfers changed/new files, expires deleted files, updates properties etc. TSM is doing backups in a multi-threaded fashion, spawning off up to 128 independent threads (officially 10) doing the actual transports of data (resourceutil parameter).

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