Installing SPFS on Linux
Today’s Blog post will explain how to install SPFS and create a standard configuration
Requirements
Before you even get started make sure you have following components installed on your Linux machine:
- Spectrum Protect API Client 8.1 or higher
- FuSE library installed
You also need to collect following information about your database environment.
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Path to where to store backups |
/backup |
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Owner and permission for backed up files |
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Spectrum Protect address and port number |
See /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys |
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Spectrum Protect credentials |
Admin username and password to setup Spectrum Protect |
Installation
First step is to install SPFS on your Linux machine, which is easiest to do with your normal installation tool.
RedHat/CentOS and SuSE
yum install spfs*.rpm
Debian and Ubuntu
dpkg -i spfs*.deb
After the installation do you need to activate the product either via a trial license or the full license key.
By running the getlicense command you will get a system key that Spictra needs to generate a license for you. Send that output to info@spictra.com
getlicense
When you got your license code you need to add it to the license.txt file in directory /etc/spfs/
echo 1234-5678-ABCD-EFGH-A1B2-C3D4-E5F6-G7H8 > /etc/spfs/license.txt
Configuration
Spectrum Protect Configuration
Create the stanza name in the Spectrum Protect API dsm.opt
echo SERVERNAME SPFS > /etc/spfs/dsm.opt
Create the SPFS dsm.sys file where you insert your Spectrum Protect Server information.
cat >> /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/dsm.sys <<- eof
SERVERNAME SPFS
TCPSERVERADDRESS <your.backupserver.com>
ERRORLOGNAME /var/log/dsmerror_spfs.log
eof
In the Spectrum Protect Server GUI or CLI you need to create a regular backup-archive node.
dsmadmc -id=<your admin id> -pa=<your admin password> "register node SPFS <node password> domain=<your backup domain>
SPFS Configuration
First we need to create the configuration file for SPFS
cat > /etc/spfs/spfs.opt <<- eof
MOUNTPOINT /backup
NODENAME SPFS
NODEPWDFILE /etc/spfs/TSM.PWD
OPTIONFILE /etc/spfs/dsm.opt
eof
We need to save the node password in the TSM.PWD file encrypted.
setpassword /etc/spfs/TSM.PWD <<< <node password>
Let's create the backup directory where your application will send it's data to and where SPFS mount the Spectrum Protect Filesystem.
mkdir /backup
mount.spfs /backup
I hope you found this blog post useful and I wish you a great summer!
