[OpenAFS] Home volume replication

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:07:52 +0100


On Nov 1, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Derek Harkness wrote:

> Does anyone have a good method for automatically keep volume synced?  
> I've just started putting together a script to release the volumes but 
> I've run into a problem.  I can't tell which volumes need to be 
> release.  Vos examine or listvldb doesn't always tell me which volumes 
> need to be released, and releasing them all takes WAY to much 
> bandwidth and WAY to much time.  Since I will be running this script 
> every 2 to 5 mins.
>

Well, 2 to 5 minutes is a little too often (at least for my taste)...

You can release from a cron entry in one of your bosservers. Release of 
a volume which is in sync won't take any noticable bandwith since the 
volumes aren't copied every time you do the release.

Horst