What are some best practices when running a backup of a GFS2 filesystem in a RHEL Resilient Storage cluster?

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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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