[OpenAFS] a noobs question and problems on a new cell

Adnoh adnoh@users.sourceforge.net
Sun, 6 May 2007 23:23:14 -0700 (PDT)


By "Backup" I mean the typical type of backup - one snapshot of the data at
the weekend and some
incremental backups every day. i don't think this is posible with backup
volumes - so i thought about volume dumps.

i don't want to have all the volumes in our headquarter. so every time a
user openes his word-doc or similar it would be completly transfered over
our VPN - and I can hear the people crying "our fileservers are too slow !"
so seperate fileservers in every district would be a good choice, I think -
would'nt they ?

i thought about every district his own fileserver with the special volume
for them and a readonly volume in our headquarter released every night - so
i could do the volume dump - i'm not very trusted with the "backup" command
yet.
but I don't know how I could set up the "shared" part where every user in
every district can read/write to it.

so if you tell me which information you need to know I can provide :-))


Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
> 
> What do you mean by "backup" ?
> 
> As you said, just create volumes, set quotas and mount them and backup 
> data to the appropriate central location.
> 
> If you want to actually have seperate fileservers at the external site 
> and use AFS volume replication, well, that would take some planning and 
> you'd need to provide more information to have a good solution defined.
> 

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