[OpenAFS] backup solutions

[John Hascall]

"Kristen J. Webb" <kwebb@teradactyl.com> writes:
> Kurt A. Seiffert wrote:
> > We are considering creating a very large OpenAFS cell. We are looking to 
> > replace our current DCE/DFS cell. That currently has about 50,000 
> > accounts with 1.3TB of data.
> > 
> > We are not sure if the new AFS cell will hold quite as many users, but 
> > the lower working number is 10,000 accounts with about 40TB of space.
> > 
> > I'm concerned about backups solutions. ..
      ...
> > Does anyone have any advice for backup solutions for this much AFS data?
> Our TiBS backup product has many special features for dealing with
> AFS backups:
> 
> 	http://www.teradactyl.com/Products/Afs.html
> 
> We are currently rolling out a single linux backup server solution
> for a 50,000+ volume cell, I'm not sure of the total data size.

That would be us.  We currently have 3.6TB of space and are in
the process of bringing another ~7.2TB online.  We have been
using an (S)DLT drives per server, we will be using TiBS and
a 4-drive AIT4 robot (with room for 12 more drives should we
need them).

John