[OpenAFS] backup suggestions

Mitch Collinsworth mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu
Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:00:59 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, John Koyle wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 00:40, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> > I used to use amanda on DLTs a long time ago, but not with AFS.  It has
> > good tape management and uses widely available (hence recoverable) dump or
> > tar.  I don't know whether you would back up the files in AFS, or backup
> > the volumes from the system file system.  I guess I can only say that I
> > liked amanda.  I'll go to sleep now.
>
> Last I checked, Amanda suffers the same problem Thomas is trying to
> avoid - single volumes cannot span multiple tapes.  I like and use
> amanda also so I've simple structured my data to avoid the problems
> mentioned.
>
> Awhile back somebody released some amanda-afs scripts, I had some
> difficulty getting them to work properly, but it still won't increase
> the capacity of your tape hardware.
>
> John
>
>
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