[OpenAFS] backup software (TSM/Veritas/TiBS, what else?)

[Lester Barrows]

Hi Tracy,

I'm curious, you had mentioned previously that you were evaluating TiBS.
I've also been using the standard AFS backup system with a tape changer
and scripts, since the inception of our cell about a year ago. What's
your opinion of TiBS based on your evaluation? Is it worth looking into
for about 500GB of data?

Regards,

Lester Barrows
Asani Solutions, LLC
Code IC Systems Group
NASA Ames Research Center

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On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:51, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
> "M. Jamal Green" <mgreen@odu.edu> wrote:
> >We use Tivoli Storage Manager here at Old Dominion University to backup
> >up our existing DCE/DFS Cell, and are currently in the process of
> >migrating to Open AFS.  There is an AFS backup client, but its only for
> >IBM AIX platform for versions of AIX up to 4.3.3.  IBM has informed us
> >that there will be no AIX 5 TSM AFS client and AIX 4.3.3 is being End of
> >Life'd this year.
> 
> I had thought I'd read in AFS documentation that the tape coordinator
> client (which I thought was what was needed) was available for AIX
> and for Solaris 2.6 & 2.7.  We have no AIX machines, but we do have
> Solaris machines if there is a client for that.
> 
> I'm curious, if you're backing up files instead of volumes, do you
> do something to prevent recursion in the mount points, for example
> mounting root.cell (or other volumes that are mount points for other
> volumes).  Or is the backup on a volume basis, but of the files?
> 
> I do backups on a partition on the fileserver basis, and everything
> on a partition gets backed up, so I'm curious what problems there
> may be with a different style of backup.
> 
> >However, we are willing to accept this because the AFS client allows us
> >to back up indiviual files as opposed to fileset/volume dumps.
> 
> You're going to keep using AIX 4.3.3 to keep this ability?
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> -Tracy
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