<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>We just upgraded to 1.6.7 and previously we were using LVM snapshots to backup the MDT. Now after the jump to 1.6.7 the tar backups are HUGE. I must be missing something but i can't find it in the documentation. My backups previously were in the MB's, now i gave up when the tar file passed 20GB, when the MDT is only using 1.8GB of disk space.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is what i am running roughly (it's actually run from another server over ssh):</div><div><br></div><div>lvcreate -s -L 4G MDS1/lvol0 -n backup</div><div>mount -t ldiskfs /dev/MDS1/backup<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/srv/backups/lustre/mds-1</div><div>cd /srv/backups/lustre/mds-1 && getfattr -R -d -m '.*' -P . | gzip > $backupdir/ea.bak.gz</div><div>cd /srv/backups/lustre/mds-1 && tar czfS - . | cat > $backupdir/mdsbak.tgz</div><div><br></div><div>I have tried it with and without the "S" on the tar, thinking that the sparse file handling was my problem.</div><div><br></div><div>So can anyone point me in the correct direction for getting these LVM backups under control.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thomas Wakefield Jr.<br>Systems Administrator COLA/IGES<br>301-902-1268<br><a href="mailto:twake@cola.iges.org">twake@cola.iges.org</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>