[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Backups using commercial products

[Ken Hornstein]

>On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Lyle Seaman wrote:
>
>> 1. be sure to coordinate the volume access with the vol server so
>> that it doesn't get moved or deleted out from under you.  This is
>> trickier than it sounds.
> 
>Just out of curiousity what happens now when a backup is in
>progress (backup dump or vos dump of a BK volume) and a vos
>move or vos remove is issued?  Both of these result in the BK
>volume being deleted.  Are they held pending completion of
>the backup operation first?

I thought that locking the volume would have been sufficient; doesn't
that do anything?

--Ken