Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-17 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: Specifically I'm interested in how many of them can do: - volumeset backups or backup by wildcarded volume/partion names - full volume restores - directory restores preserving acls - individual file restores - incremental backups - backups spanning t

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-16 Thread seth vidal
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:54 -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > Sorry for jumping in late on this. I was out on vacation at the time. > > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Stephen Joyce wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: > > > >> Specifically I'm interested in how many of them can do: > >> - v

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-16 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
Sorry for jumping in late on this. I was out on vacation at the time. On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Stephen Joyce wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: Specifically I'm interested in how many of them can do: - volumeset backups or backup by wildcarded volume/partion names - full volume resto

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread Stephen Joyce
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, seth vidal wrote: > Specifically I'm interested in how many of them can do: > - volumeset backups or backup by wildcarded volume/partion names > - full volume restores > - directory restores preserving acls > - individual file restores > - incremental backups > - backups

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
seth vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 19:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, I think Teradactyl might do that for you and that's about it. >> TSM used to, but they dropped AFS file backup support. > Teradactyl worries the hell out of me. They're a small company with >

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread seth vidal
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 19:00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > seth vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to hear what internal mechanisms people are doing to backup > > afs. It seems like everyone has their own special system to backup afs. > > I'm curious about why that's so and why none of

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread Russ Allbery
seth vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to hear what internal mechanisms people are doing to backup > afs. It seems like everyone has their own special system to backup afs. > I'm curious about why that's so and why none of the major open source > backup software has support for afs. I

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread seth vidal
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:28 +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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 t

Re: [OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 d

[OpenAFS] Backup AFS with BackupPC?

2006-10-08 Thread Stephen Joyce
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 for more information. I'm working on a "vos" XferMethod for it to allow it to directly backup and restore AF