[OpenAFS] 'replication'

[Paul Blackburn]

Turbo,

You need to run the "vos release $name_of_RW_volume"
to update the ReadOnly replica volumes to be copies
of the current ReadWrite volume.

I use "vos release $name_of_RW_volume -verbose"
which gives a little more detail about the volume release process.

It's also possible to automate this via crontab.
I have an "every 10 minutes" crontab'ed script keeping
some key volume RO replicas up-to-date on our fileservers
(which are in different countries).
--
cheers
paul                          http://acm.org/~mpb

Turbo Fredriksson wrote:

>A couple of weeks ago I created som replica 'sites' (it replicates
>some very important volumes to another partition /vicepc where the
>original volume is on /vicepb). I only have one machine at the
>moment, so I'm just replicating to the same host.
>
>This was more or less just a test on how it's done. Any way, I
>mounted my readonly replica on another directory, and discovered
>that it's not real time replication! Ie, the files are OLD.
>
>Did I set it up wrongly, or is this expected (to run 'vos release ...')? 
>