[OpenAFS] Backup-strategy

[Klaas Hagemann]

That is a very good idea, i will try it out.
Thanks a lot

Klaas
----- Original Message -----
From: <Craig_Everhart@transarc.com>
To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>; "Klaas Hagemann" <kerberos@northsailor.de>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Backup-strategy


> So what you want is to make your own volumes to shadow the user's volume.
>
> Do this by creating a shadow for every user volume:
> vos dump user.foo | vos restore user.foo.shadow
> where user.foo is at the satellite site and user.foo.shadow is at the
> central one.  Do incremental dumps of user.foo data every day, restoring
> them to user.foo.shadow
> vos dump -time XXXXX user.foo | vos restore user.foo.shadow
>
> Do all your backups of user.foo.shadow data.  It doesn't even have to be
> mounted if you're using vos dump to back it up.  If you're using
> something else, you get to create a shadow mount tree.
>
> If you want to be even nicer to your users, do "vos backupsys" to make
> local (satellite) clones of all the user.foo volumes, then do your
> dump/restore from the backup volumes to the shadow ones:
> vos backup user.foo
> vos dump -time XXXXX user.foo.backup | vos restore user.foo.shadow
>
> This avoids the .readonly headaches and puts the storage where you want
it.
>
> Craig