Re: Finding out which volumes have been backed up

[Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre]

Mark Giuffrida -
> Its safe to try to move any volume even when a backup is in progress.  The
> reason is that the volume is locked during critical sectons (i.e., cloning)
> and the "vos move" will fail.  If you take this route, its wise to recreate 
the
> backup volume after moving.

No it isn't, Mark, at least not with those of us still on AFS 3.2, since if 
backup can't find the volume it wants in the place it thinks it ought to be, 
it is too dumb to try asking the vldb again, and just fails. I gather that 
this will happen in AFS 3.3, but I can't upgrade until a suitable vacation.

Michael J Allard:
> show what volumes have been dumped.  We don't use them for anything; we just 
 
> noticed that they are there, and they contain probably just what you are  
> looking for.

Interesting; it's not just *me* to whom these log files were less than 
obvious. I'm now about to ask a really dumb question. Given that everything 
else logs in /var/afs/logs, why couldn't backup/butc leave their log files 
there too? Then I wouldn't have had to appear dumb and ask this question.

Thanks to all those who answered.

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