On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
| To follow up my own posting, in response to the above, Mr. Mee
| forwarded an article describing one known way to backup AFS volumes
| through Networker using something called Box Hill's Vosasm. I've
| included the article below. Has anyone here tried this or found
| any other method you consider useful for backing up AFS servers
| with a commercial software package?
IMHO the BoxHill stuff is rather overpriced.
We back up our AFS servers to Networker using Bourne shell scripts and
"vos dump".
Essentially we're doing something like (in pseduocode):
@list = list_local_volumes
while (@list) {
check volume size
check free disk on dump partition
if there's enough space {
dump it | gzip it
} else {
tell networker to back it all up
delete the dumped volumes
dump it | gzip it
}
remove volume from list
}
There's of course a bunch of error checking and some other niceties
that are done as well.
I'll bug the person who wrote them (or he can respond as he does lurk on
this list) if folks are interested in using them.
-brian
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