[OpenAFS] backup of pt-server data

[Charles Clancy]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Klaas Hagemann wrote:

> openafs provides many choices for making backup of volumes. But what
> about the protection server database or the volume server database? Are
> there any openafs-functions to backup them or to create a consistent
> dump?

In the past, I've always just tar.gz'd up /usr/afs/db/* to somewhere
within AFS space before doing my daily backups.

Of course, that doesn't provide you with the ability to do selective
restores of just certain records.  I bet it wouldn't be too difficult to
write a utility to parse the .DB0 files and allow you to move certain
records around when AFS is offline.

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