> from: Jim Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> luan> I think the file backup/virus
> luan> check/garbage collection programs should avoid entering a volume
> if it luan> had not been updated since last cycle.
>
> Yes, but not too practical, unfortunately. This implies that all your
> software knows about AFS ... Then we'd have to wait for the version
> that runs on DFS...
>
> Depends on the savings you get. When our vos backupsys for the cell
> started taking 12-14 hours a day, we wrote a "smarter" vos backupsys,
> so that it only backs up the touched volumes. We then shorten the
> backupsys time to 1-2 hours, and it's only 121 lines of perl.
Hmm.... We have each fileserver run vos backupsys for its own volumes
each night. By doing all the fileservers in parallel, the whole process
only takes around an hour. We have about 500GB in 6000 volumes, spread
across around 40 fileservers.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Programmer, CMU SCS Research Facility
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