ok, I try to explain. we have several districts connected to our headquarter over a vpn. In every district we have ~50-150 windows-clients and a samba server ( all authenticating against a Win2003 Server with ADS) for their filestorage with an usb-hdd attached for backup purpose. In our headquarter we would have enough space to hold all the company data and backup. so i would have something like /afs/domain/dist1/data /afs/domain/dist2/data /afs/domain/dist3/data /afs/domain/shared/data where every district has it's own data folder and one volume where all the districts work together in. the backup should be done on a central place (our headquarter).
so if somebody can explain me how you would build this scenario it would be really great for me to get started ;-))) thanks Jason Edgecombe-3 wrote: > > Adnoh wrote: >> hello @all >> maybe stupid question but I don't know it :-) >> >> i have two fileservers connected over a 2 mbit vpn (fs1 with rw-volume >> and >> fs2 with a ro-instance) and mounted that on /afs/domain/vol >> can I settup this that way: >> my users on fs1 work with /afs/domain/vol - rw + ro - thats clear to me. >> when my users on fs2 read a file it should be taken from the ro-instance >> on >> the internal harddrive and if they change anything it is written to >> fs1-rw-instance !? on my try i get only the error "readonly filesystem" >> >> can this be done or do i have to setup a mountpoint /afs/domain/.vol >> (-rw) >> and point the users to that directory !? >> >> thanks for any responses to help me getting started >> > The typical scenario is as follows: > > /afs/domain/volume is the read-only copy if it exists. > /afs/.domain/volume is always the read-write copy. <-- note the > /afs/<dot>domain This is referred to at the "dotted" path. > > writing to the read-only path of /afs/domain/volume will get the error > "read-only filesystem". To write, you must use the path > /afs/.domain/volume > > If you are doing lots of writes, then having the volume replicated may > not be the best thing. > > What is the usage model for this volume? > > Jason > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/a-noobs-question-and-problems-on-a-new-cell-tf3691140.html#a10327886 Sent from the OpenAFS - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
