Hello,
We are wanting to improve our backups here at NCSU and are looking
at various ways to do it, including commercial products.
Are any of you using products such as Budtool or ADSM/Tivoli, etc.?
Something that might can happen now that AFS has been opened sourced
is an AFS aware tar and or dump command, ie, one that keeps track of
acl's on a directory. I really think things would improve for us if
we could stream data to tape without having to access the database
servers. Yes, other means of maintaining some form of a backup database
would be needed, but Arla combined with an AFS tar or afsdump
( to coin a word ) would probably do the trick nicely.
Regards,
Earl Shannon
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Systems Programmer, Computing Services, Information Technology
NC State University.
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ershanno
