On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:29:36 -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday, October 25, 2004 10:58:22 -0700 Renata Maria Dart > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Jeff, we create a backup of the entire /usr/afs/db directory > > every night (and in addition every night we make a copy of the > > boot drive of our database servers onto an alternate drive). > > Is there anything more to be gained by using pt_util? > Merely copying the database file is not atomic, so there's the chance when > you make a copy that it will not be internally consistent. If you use > pt_util, it will check the database version before and after the dump, and > print a warning if they are not the same. Of course, this only helps if > you notice the warning...
On the one hand, we also back up our /usr/afs/db directories. We do it by a) making sure we're not using the sync-site and b) turning off the PT/VL servers before copying the files. > In addition, the dump file created by pt_util is (more or less) human > readable. So, if an admin accidentally deletes himself, you can read the > latest dump to see what his PTS ID was and what groups he was in. On the other hand, that's [censored] nifty. I just may switch to this. e. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
