[OpenAFS-devel] vos dump busying out the volume while dumping...

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Under normal circumstances, I'd always dump the .backup or .readonly
volume, but I am looking at the possibility of doing fairly frequent
incremental dumps of volumes, and had an idea about it.

Currently, vos dump starts a transaction on the volume you specify,
marking it as busy while that entire transaction is running.

What about adding a "-clone" option to vos dump syntax that would
operate very similar to how the vos move behaves. Basically, clone the
source volume, do the dump from the clone, and then delete the clone.

Comments?

(Before you suggest just running vos backup, I'd rather not replace the
existing .backup volume during the day, since we publish that it is a
backup from last night.)

-- Nathan

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