[OpenAFS] releasing volumes automatically

[Hartmut Reuter]

Marco Spatz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've set up an OpenAFS und a 4 machines cluster, and have made replicas 
> of the user's home volumes. I know, that generally, this is a bad idea, 
> but I want to use this as backup the user can access without my help 
> (I've mounted the readonly volumes to another mountpoint).
> And now I want the AFS system to release this volumes at night, but I 
> don't know how to this. Thought about writing a cronjob, but I don't 
> know how do gain access as admin to get the rights to execute 'vos 
> release'.
> Is there any possibility to tell OpenAFS to release certain (or all) 
> changed volumes at a certain time? Would be a great help.

We run on our fileserver machines cronjobs under root which use
"vos release <xxx> -localauth"

Hartmut


> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Marco
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