[OpenAFS] backing up afs (linux)

[Mitch Collinsworth]

If you find butc painful (you wouldn't be the first), you can wrap
a script around vos dump as an alternative.

-Mitch


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Ron Croonenberg wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to AFS and trying to figure out how to back up an AFS cell.
>
> I have figured out how to make backups manually. problem is though I need to run
> butc in a dedicated telnet/ssh session in order to use the backup backup utility
> to create an afs dump.
>
> what I want to do is create a script and run it in a crontab so that I don't
> have to manually create a backup all the time.
>
> Is there something else that I can use instead of butc, or can butc be executed
> when the backup utility needs it ? (or is there something like butc that can run
> as a deamon on the afs-server so it is always available ?)
>
> thanks,
>
> Ron