[OpenAFS] Re: user home directory replication

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery@ece.cmu.edu
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:39:39 -0400


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On 7/22/10 17:12 , Andrew Deason wrote:
> I think Brandon was talking about using clones to have 'yesterday',
> 'last week', and 'last month' (et al) volumes all available to users all
> the time. It's an interesting idea, but it has limitations as you have
> noted, and if you want something like daily data for the past month
> that's obviously not going to work. 

Essentially, yes; I thought that was what the OP was asking about.  Seems
like a neat idea even with the restrictions, although I'd want to script
something to manage the volumes automatically and test it fairly thoroughly
before putting it into production.

(OTOH I don't run the AFS servers around here, which may be for the best.)
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