On 12/27/05, Chris Huebsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Tracy Di Marco White wrote: > > > We've been adding several 1.2+ TB servers, and it has become no longer > > reasonable to put a tape drive on every server, as we had been doing. > > You do not have a tape drive on every server. AFS Backup can send its > backup via network to an other afs-backup-server.
Right. I started using that on our new servers that we added before the new backup server was in production. > > Our full backups were taking longer than a day, sometimes three or > > four days, and things were set up so that it was more complicated to > > do incremental backups while the full backups were running. > > This is really ugly. Did you evaluate the reason for that? Are the disks > to slow, or the tape-drives or the system-bus of your server machines? AFS seemed to be our bottleneck. -Tracy _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info