What are some best practices when running a backup of a GFS2 filesystem in a RHEL Resilient Storage cluster?
Issue
- What are some best practices when running a backup of a
GFS2
filesystem? - Backups of a GFS2 file system take a long time to complete
- My backup software runs more slowly against GFS2 than it does ext3 or ext4.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5, 6, or 7 with the Resilient Storage Add On
- A Global File System (
GFS
) or Global File System 2 (GFS2
)
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