[OpenAFS] Re: Preferred way to do backup?

[Matt W. Benjamin]

FYI,  I'm -actually- and AFS backup lamer and archive volume dumps in a Bacula repo.  Sorry.

Matt

----- "Emil Assarsson" <Emil.Assarsson@sonyericsson.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for the suggestions :-)
> 
> I found this on internet
> http://linuxbox.com/drupal/files/downloads/afs_backup_afsbp2005.pdf
> that seems to bring up some of the solutions.
> Now I have something to do this weekend too :-P
> 
> 
> --
> Emil
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Deason
> Sent: fredag den 17 december 2010 16:34
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: Preferred way to do backup?
> 
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:41:16 -0500
> Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Are there a better method of doing backups now days than using
> the
> > > backup utilities?
> > 
> > That's a subjective question. It really depends on what else you
> have
> > at your site, what you want to back up to, what you're comfortable
> > with.
> > 
> > TSM supports AFS. So does TiBS. Don't want a commercial product?
> There
> > are tools to allow use of Amanda or Bacula. Or perhaps you want to
> > have backups in the form of storage with volume dumps, in which
> case
> > scripts dumping to an HSM or something else elsewhere might be your
> > choice.
> 
> Don't forget Stephen Joyce's "BackupAFS". I haven't used it, but I
> think
> it's worth mentioning as one of the few backup systems that is
> actively
> paying attention to AFS.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Deason
> adeason@sinenomine.net
> 
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