So you're backing up with adsm at the file level and not the volume level?
i.e. not using 'vos dump' operations to dump the whole volumes? That would
save the ACL's for you, but it does make restores a bit more difficult.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Lex Wennmacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:30 AM
> To: David G McMurtrie; info-afs
> Subject: Re: afs and adsm
>
>
> On Jun 6, 7:38am, David G McMurtrie wrote:
> > Subject: afs and adsm
> > Does anyone have any experience using adsm to backup afs
> data in a non-AIX
> > environment?
>
> We are using adsm. Our clients are Suns and Digital/Compaq
> Alphas, and PCs
> (Windows, Linux). Adsm is used regularly to backup data on
> AFS and non-AFS
> filesystems.
>
> I must say that I really like adsm, but it seems not to be perfect in
> conjunction with AFS. E. g., ACLs are not saved, only standard Unix
> permissions.
>
> We also had several failures to backup large AFS volumes
> ("dsmc: Internal
> program error. Please see your service representative.").
> These problems went
> away after running vfsck/salvager on the volumes in question
> (this was the
> advice of the service representative), but the real cause of
> the problem is
> still unclear to me.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
