[OpenAFS] Backups (Was: Not a directory)

[Turbo Fredriksson]

Quoting tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (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.

I see. I thought you had to have it accessable to be backed up. 

I have quite a large  setup without AFS (ie, non-AFS filesystems) that
is  currently beeing  backed up  with AFBackup.  Other hosts  are also
using my tapedrive for backups.

Is it possible to mix the two systems without problems?
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