Getting Started - OnePass Agent for Unix File System Data Movement

Install Install Cluster Configuration Data Movement Recover

perform a Backup

Once the OnePass Agent is enabled, perform a full backup to archive the backed up files.

What Gets Archived

The OnePass Agent archives the following file systems:

Operating System

Archived File Systems

AIX Journal File System 2 (JFS2)

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)

VERITAS File System (VxFS)

VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS)

HP-UX VERITAS File System (VxFS)
Linux 'X' File System (XFS)

B-tree File System (Btrfs)

Extended 3 File System (ext3)

Extended 4 File System (ext4)

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)

X9000 IBRIX File System (IBRIXFS) 6.x

PolyServe Matrix Server

VERITAS File System (VxFS)

VERITAS Cluster File System (VxCFS)

Lustre File System (Clustered File System)

Red Hat Linux 6.x GFS2 (Clustered File System)

The default Extended 2 File System (ext2) gets archived when it is compiled as a module.

Novell OES2 Linux NSS file system
Solaris Unix File System (UFS)

VERITAS File System (VxFS)

Zettabyte File System (ZFS on Solaris 10 6/06)

What Does Not Get Archived

The following file types/objects are automatically filtered out of archive operations by the system, and will not be archived.

Files with extensions *.a, *.ksh, *.csh, *.sh, *.lib, and *.so are automatically filtered out of subclient content by default. Similarly, files in the following directories are also skipped from archiving on all Unix platforms.

In addition to the above, there are also platform specific files that are automatically filtered from archiving.

The following section provides step-by-step instructions for performing your first backup.

The default subclient has the root directory as the subclient content. Therefore a backup and archive job run on the default subclient results in backing up the entire root directory. In order to run a backup and archive of selective data files, run the backup on an user defined subclient with specific content.

1.
  • From the CommCell Console, navigate to Client Computers | File System | defaultBackupSet.
  • Right-click the Subclient and click Backup.
2.
  • Select Full as backup type and Immediate to run the job immediately.
  • Click OK.
3. You can track the progress of the job from the Job Controller or Event Viewer window of the CommCell console.
4. Once the backup process is completed, archiving rules are applied per volume (mount point) level and files that meet the stubbing rules are stubbed. 
  • Stubs are placeholders of the original data after it has been migrated to the secondary storage.
  • Stubs replace the backed up files in the location selected by the user during backup.
  • After stubbing, the block size of the files on the disk reduces to a single block.

 

Files before stubbing

Files after stubbing

5. Once job is complete, view the details of job from the Backup History.
  • Right-click the subclient and select Backup History.
  • Click OK.

 

6.
  • Right-click the job and select View Stub File List to see the files that got stubbed during the backup process.
By default, files that satisfy the following criteria will be stubbed when a backup is run:
  • Archiving starts when the free space on the volume goes below 50%.
  • Archiving stops when 80% of the volume space is freed up.
  • Files not accessed for 90 days or more will be archived.
  • Files not modified in the last 90 days will be archived.
  • Files greater than 1 KB will be archived.