[OpenAFS] Not a directory

[Tino Schwarze]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:49:29PM +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, 

No. Not at all. AFS volumes are usually backed up using vos dump. If you
use tar or any other non-AFS-aware backup system, you will lose any
ACLs, at least.

Bye, Tino.

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