[OpenAFS] backup of pt-server data

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Charles Clancy wrote:

> 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.

for ptserver there's already pt_util that we "ship"