On 12 Dec 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Is anyone out there backing up AFS volumes with Amanda? If so, how
> are you doing it?
It's been discussed on and off but I don't believe anyone is actually
doing it... yet. I'm very interested in it and have been gradually
pulling together some thoughts on how to accomplish it, with the
eventual intent of making it happen. I'd love to find others who want
to join in the effort.
The quick-n-dirty approach would be to write a script that uses 'vos
listvol' to add all your backup volumes to disklist and then put a
wrapper around gtar that detects which disklist entries are afs volumes
and calls 'vos dump' on each one individually. The drawback with this
is that (IMO) afs volumes are too small and too numerous for this
approach. (i.e. it doesn't scale particularly well)
I'm thinking it would be better to have a volume grouping mechanism,
like the volume groups used by afs backup. This seems doable, but
requires more work. There's supposedly a utility called budtool that's
been floating around for a while that might be useful for this. So
far I haven't managed to get my hands on it but it's been a while
since I last tried.
-Mitch
