>>>>> On Thu, 6 Jun 1996 14:16:41 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rosa Bolger) said:
> Have anyone of you experienced a crash of the server that holds most
> of the RW volumes?
Yes, I have. And experienced replacements of file servers and disks.
> Does the AFS volume backups include the "acls" of each
> volumes and subdirectories? or you have to set them manually after restoring
> a backup?
AFS access contol lists are saved and restored with "backup" command
of AFS. No manual operation is needed for setting acls.
In other hand, AFS acls are just recorded on the volume by ID# of
users and groups with independence of its authentication database.
AFS volume backups doesn't concern the link of a user name and its ID#.
> I'm not in that situation right now, but I want to make sure we are
> prepare. Your comments are appreciated
If you lose your authentication DB, pairs of AFS ID# and an access
permission are completely meeningless.
For the situation described above, I suggest you to backup not only
AFS volumes but AFS DB's.
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Susumu Miki ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tsukuba Research Center, Real World Computing Partnership, JAPAN
