[OpenAFS] backing up afs (linux)

[Robin Yamaguchi]

I do the same, and killall butc at the end of the script.  I prefer not to
have butc running at all times, so we don't have to remember to kill it
when we restore - this I prefer to run from a console window since
some restores span tapes.

Remember that there is ~2.5 gig limit if butc is writing to a file.  If
running in the background, and your dump reaches that limit, butc will
prompt for another "tape."  Since the process is backgrounded, from my
experiences, butc then goes crazy and hogs all the CPU.

-Robin

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Robin H. Yamaguchi
Physics Computing Services
UC Santa Barbara
805-893-8366
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, seph wrote:

> > 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 ?)
>
> your script can just execute butc with the options you need, it's what
> mine does. You could also run butc from bosserver.
>
> seph
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