[OpenAFS-devel] mutiple levels of backup volumes?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:

> How hard would it be to give the AFS server the ability to have multiple
> levels of backup volumes? i.e. be able to maintain a history of volumes. 

It should be possible to create an arbitrary number of RO clones of the
same read/write volume.  However, the vldb tracks only one backup and one
readonly clone for any given volume.  You'd have to invent some scheme for
naming the extra backup volumes, and some mechanism for tracking them.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA