[OpenAFS] Not a directory

Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
07 Apr 2002 13:49:29 +0200


Quoting tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Tino Schwarze):

> On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> > > vos backup user             (to create a new backup volume)
> > 
> > Don't want to do this quite yet. I have some issues with my tapedrive now...
> 
> vos backup doesn't do anything with tapes and stuff. It just creates a
> backup volume for volume user (that is, it creates user.backup). The
> purpose of the backup volume is to have a snapshot which can be backed
> up later.

Yes. But you have to 'mount' the snapshot for it to be usefull, and if
the new mountpoint is big, you need a tape to back it up to... :)
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