On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:43:38 +0100 Horst Birthelmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2005, at 4:12 PM, ed wrote: > > Can this not be automated via cron for all volumes every 5min for > > example? > > It can, of course, but that's still no failover, since you have just > one RW copy. > If that server goes down, you _can't write_, and besides that, you > have to mount the RW volume differently, so your user will have > another path to the RW copy. That's definitely not what people call > full replication of data. > > This is documented that way and AFS people never claimed to have this > feature (R/W replication of data across fileservers). Isn't there a backup server in AFS, or am I confusing that with something else, such as volume database backup. -- Regards, Ed http://www.usenix.org.uk - http://irc.is-cool.net :%s/Open Source/Free Software/g _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
