[OpenAFS-devel] Openafs Cell Backup

[Christopher D. Clausen]

Deon George <deon@wurley.net> wrote:
> Chechu wrote:
>> We are trying TSM (IBM tivoli satorage manager). What do the openafs
>> users use to make back up from openafs cell?
>>
> Checku, I also use TSM to backup my cells.
>
> The disadvantage with my current setup, is you cant backup ACLs - as I
> backup the /afs tree as it it were a regular file system.
>
> It would be great if there was a AFS aware TSM client - (especially if
> they included the client in the openafs source - that called the TSM
> API). If I knew anything about coding in C/C++ I'd have a go at it,
> but its beyond my skills.

Uhh, there is an AFS aware TSM client.  It only runs on AIX 4.3 or 5.1 
though.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/AIX/AIX43/v517/IP22750.tivoli.tsm.client.afs.aix43.32bit

You can copy the binaries to AIX 5.3 and have it work as well.

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