Steven Jenkins wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Loren M. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am looking for a way to mount a snapshot of last nights backup. All >> volumes have a backup volume currently and I then mounted root.cell >> as /afs/.<cell>/archive. archive was read-only and did not change when >> I changed the RW volume for root.cell and released it, but all the mount >> points under the backup volume traversed to the RO or RW volumes. Is >> there a way to make the mount points traverse similarly to how mount >> points for volumes with RO clones work? >> > > > There is not a way to create a mountpoint that will 'automatically' > traverse backup volumes without specifying the backup volume itself, > for example, you'll need to do something like > > fs mkmount -dir /afs/mycell/backups/somepath -vol myvol.backup > > Changing traversal semantics while in .backup volumes (e.g., to be > 'once in a .backup volume, prefer to traverse to backup volumes) > could be done, but, to my knowledge, that's not on anyone's Road Map. > > How helpful would that change be? > This feature is available as an option to the afsd command. If you add the "-backuptree" option to the afs client startup script, then it will prefer backup volumes once in a backup volume. This "-backuptree" option is not enabled by default.
See http://www.openafs.org/pages/manpages/8/afsd.html for more info. Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
