[OpenAFS] openafs and legato networker

[rader@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu]

You should/might find that http://noc.hep.wisc.edu/NetWorkerAFS.txt 
works nicely.  But... Legato as stopped shipping the executable 
("nsrfile") that encapsulates vos dump streams into NetWorker dump 
streams... so NetWorkerAFS v0 is essentially at the end of it's life.

This winter I'll either 1) rewrite NetWorkerAFS (so it tells NetWorker
write vos dumps to disk and then back up the vos dump files) or 2)
migrate to TiBS.

steve 
- - - 
systems & network manager
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

 > From: Juha 
 > 
 > Hi!
 > 
 > Does anyone have any experience using legato networker to back up afs
 > volumes? We would like to switch from "vos dump all volumes to an extra
 > raid array" -backups to using legato (since that's the de facto backup
 > solution around here). What's the best way to do it?
 > 
 > I found this
 > http://68.100.67.187:3000/openafs/afs-backup-to-legato.tar.gz, but I'm
 > unsure as to how reliable/useful it is. Certainly it seems like less work
 > than what would be required to build a backup-to-legato -system from
 > scratch. Anyone using this?
 > 
 > Originally, I was thinking of just using our current dumps as sources for
 > legato, but that make incremental backups quite painful since our current
 > scheme just dumps whole volumes, no incrementals.
 > 
 > -Juha
 > 
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 > 		| Department of Physics, University of Turku	|
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