[OpenAFS] rsync on afs-client

[Lee Damon]

Has anyone successfully built a backup system around it using amanda?

nomad

> Or just use vos dump. It's pretty easy to build any sort of backup
> system around vos dumps with incremental and full dumps. 
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Bacchi [mailto:mbacchi@gmavt.net] 
> > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 7:57 AM
> > To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] rsync on afs-client 
> > 
> > 
> >  > Rsync only transfers the incremental changes, does the 
> > afs-client also
> >  > only load these changes over the network?
> >  > or is every file that is checked by rsync transferred 
> > totally over the
> >  > network to the afs cache?
> > 
> > The client cache will request complete files from the 
> > fileserver.  rsync 
> > will then have to examine the file itself and determine what an 
> > 'incremental change' is.
> > 
> >  > We are still not sure how to do backup, our next idea is to take an
> >  > afs
> >  > client and to rsync the whole afs directory tree.
> > 
> > This is not an acceptable method.  AFS backup preserves ACLs, 
> > rsync does 
> > not.  Your solution will require one full backup for each day of the 
> > week.  How else do you propose to do a restore if some files have 
> > changed but others have not?  Learn how to use the AFS backup 
> > system, it 
> > is simple enough to get a basic backup schedule in place.  If 
> > you have 
> > more specific questions ask them here, or read the AFS 
> > Adminitrators Guide.
> > 
> > -Matt
> > 
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