Russ Allbery writes:
>Morris Strongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Has anyone succeeded in doing backups of AFS using ADSM, From which you
>> can recover both volumes and their mount points?
>
>> If so, we would welcome more information as to how this was
>> accomplished. Thanks.
>
>We solved the mount point tracking problem by maintaining a separate
>database of mount points. We use a script to create volumes whenever we
>create a new one that adds it to the database, we compare the volumes
>found in the database with a full vos listvol every night to make sure
>we've accounted for all of them, and we periodically check the contents of
>the database against AFS in case anything moved.
>
>It doesn't entirely solve this problem, but it partly solves it, and
>solves a number of other problems at the same time. It was proving too
>easy to lose track of volumes otherwise.
>
>(Not sure if our ADSM backup system gets the mount points at the same time
>as the files; it might, but I don't know enough about how that part in
>particular works.)
>
>--
>Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Yes ADSM backs up ACLs and mountpints information along with files.
Susan
