I've been using BackupPC to backup non-afs disks for awhile now. It's an opensource solution for disk-to-disk backups via tar, rsync, or smb. See <http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc> for more information.
I'm working on a "vos" XferMethod for it to allow it to directly backup and restore AFS volumes. In reality it's just lots of scripting around vos dump and vos restore, but with the necessary hooks into BackupPC so that it can do all the work to determine what backups are necessary, where to store dumpfiles, and handle manual operations, including restores, via the CGI interface. I've already done a lot of the heavy lifting. It is working with my test volumes... But I readily admit that my perl ain't the sexiest you'll see. :-) I'm sure that there are ways it can be made better, cleaner, and with more robust error checking. To reiterate, I am NOT the author of BackupPC. But do I plan to offer my changes back upstream to BackupPC under the GPL, assuming that the devlopers want them. So I want to gauge the interest in the community for BackupPC with AFS capability... anyone think it might be useful to them? Secondly, if there is anyone on the list who either currently uses BackupPC or has excellent perl skills, preferably both! and would like to collaborate, please contact me offlist. Cheers, Stephen -- Stephen Joyce Systems Administrator P A N I C Physics & Astronomy Department Physics & Astronomy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network Infrastructure voice: (919) 962-7214 and Computing fax: (919) 962-0480 http://www.panic.unc.edu The problem with troubleshooting is that often trouble shoots back. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info