On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:35:13 +0100 Simon Wilkinson <s...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> > As you mentioned, they can also 'kinda' be used for backup purposes, > [ snip ] > > I definitely wouldn't recommend that for home dirs or anything like > > that, though, since from the user's perspective it looks like their > > data just suddenly went back in time by a day. Usually it's not much > > better than just having real backups. > > I'd strongly recommend considering them for this use - alongside a > real backup solution. Yes, that's fine; I meant for doing that automatically. I was trying to advocate against two things, which some people have at least thought about doing: (1) having that _replace_ a backup system (that is, not having any other backups), or (2) automate RO->RW conversion in the case of a failure. (1) is obviously a bad choice because you only get one, and the data is still in datacenters on servers, etc etc. (2) is bad for homedirs because the data suddenly reverts to what it was a day ago, which is confusing at best. If you always treat it as a normal backup recovery scenario... well, yeah, you have to go back in time no matter how you restore. -- Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info