[OpenAFS] rsync on afs-client
Lee Damon
nomad@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:39:05 -0800
Has anyone successfully built a backup system around it using amanda?
nomad
> Or just use vos dump. It's pretty easy to build any sort of backup
> system around vos dumps with incremental and full dumps.
>
> -- Nathan
>
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> Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@umr.edu
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Bacchi [mailto:mbacchi@gmavt.net]
> > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 7:57 AM
> > To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] rsync on afs-client
> >
> >
> > > Rsync only transfers the incremental changes, does the
> > afs-client also
> > > only load these changes over the network?
> > > or is every file that is checked by rsync transferred
> > totally over the
> > > network to the afs cache?
> >
> > The client cache will request complete files from the
> > fileserver. rsync
> > will then have to examine the file itself and determine what an
> > 'incremental change' is.
> >
> > > We are still not sure how to do backup, our next idea is to take an
> > > afs
> > > client and to rsync the whole afs directory tree.
> >
> > This is not an acceptable method. AFS backup preserves ACLs,
> > rsync does
> > not. Your solution will require one full backup for each day of the
> > week. How else do you propose to do a restore if some files have
> > changed but others have not? Learn how to use the AFS backup
> > system, it
> > is simple enough to get a basic backup schedule in place. If
> > you have
> > more specific questions ask them here, or read the AFS
> > Adminitrators Guide.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
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