[OpenAFS] backup solutions

[Mike Fedyk]

Chris Huebsch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Kurt A. Seiffert wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any advice for backup solutions for this much AFS data?
>
>
> Thomas Mueller of Chemnitz University of Technology developed a so
> called Chemnitz AFS Backup Suite.
>
> Unfortunately the doc is in german only:
>
> http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~thm/ws03/AFSChemnitzAfsBackupSuite.html
>
> The basic idea is to have 2 servers with 3 Raids clustered together.
>
> First server is the primary RW-Server. At this machine a RO-Clone and
> .backup are created. The Volume has a second site on the second Server.
>
> This RO-Copy is dumped into a File on the second Raid of the second
> Server.
>
> There is an extension to AFS which switches RO volumes to RW in case of
> a failure of the first Server. 

Oooh, I want that!

Is this functionality available without being able to read german (ie, 
how would I turn a RO volume RW without the above?