[OpenAFS] Re: backup strategy

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew Deason
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:53:33 -0800 Russell Button wrote: > I get the impression that AFS is this amorphous cloud of data storage. > So when you backup stuff, it's not as if it's organized by machine and > file system. It's not really much different for AFS than most other things. Your files are

[OpenAFS] Re: backup strategy

2014-11-18 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Teradactyl's TiBS: > . > IIRC Teradactyl likes to trumpet their "synthetic" full dumps, which is > a feature where they use existing incremental and full dumps to generate > a new "full" dump every so often

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: backup strategy

2014-11-25 Thread Kristen J. Webb
I want to thank Andrew and Garrett for their honorable mention of our TiBS backup solution. Here is some additional information relevant to the discussion they have brought up. TiBS easily supports large AFS volumes. There are many factors that can limit quota sizes such as the size of the v

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: backup strategy

2014-11-25 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Kristen J. Webb wrote: > I also took a look at the tsmafs module and had a couple technical > questions about how it works. > > 1. What happens when you rename a directory (either a volume name or > within a volume)? Does the entire directory need to get back

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: backup strategy

2014-11-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Mattias Pantzare skrev den 2014-11-25 21:58: On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Kristen J. Webb > wrote: I also took a look at the tsmafs module and had a couple technical questions about how it works. 1. What happens when you rename a directory (ei