[SAC] dsmc - tivoli backup system on osgeo1

[Howard Butler]

On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> I am increasingly convinced that the automated backup done by dsmc
> on osgeo1 is responsible for the IO contention that leads to service
> unavailability on a fairly frequent basis.
> 
> I would like to disable these backups for a couple weeks to see if it helps
> a lot.  We have never used the backups and most service data is backed up
> by other mechanisms anyways.
> 
> Thoughts?  If there are no objections raised here in a couple days I might
> just go ahead and do it.
> 
> Also, does anyone know how to manage this service?  Do I need to file a ticket
> with peer1?

+ 1 Assuming we have documented by-hand or existing backup solutions for all of our services that are currently assuming tivoli's doing their backup (ldap?, databases?, htdocs directories?, trac config

Howard