> + How can I archive my venti? Heiko on this list mentioned burning > the arenas to a disk.
rdarena can be used to copy a sealed arena out for burning to a CD or DVD. wrarena can copy it back to the venti server. > + Am I supposed to run maintenance tasks of ventiaux(8) on a regular > basis? If yes when and which? Those are only necessary if your disks go bad and you are trying to clean up the pieces or restore from backup. > + I want to use a venti server as backup server for a some machines > in my network, plan9 and others. What are my best options? I thought > about using p9p's vac to copy the other machine's backups to venti, but I > would like to make them available again through a nice directory > structure a la dumpfs on the plan9 server. (Which in turn > could be exported via nfs) depends on what the others are. if you are backing up linux/bsd machines and don't care about seeing the plan 9 backups from those machines, you could use the p9p vbackup/vnfs programs. http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html russ
