[OpenAFS-devel] Re: AFS backup

[Bernie O'Connor]

All,

I am not a guru, but I've been following the discussion about file copying 
between afs servers and minimizing the overhead of the client initiated copy 
operation (bypassing cache manager of the client).  I haven't looked at the code 
very closely, but there is an open protocol for network based backups (www.ndmp.org).  
They are addressing the same kind of problem (network based storage 
devices directly contacting the output device for high performance backups).  
Someone further interested in the topic might want to take a look at their efforts.

my .01

bernie