[2255] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: Backup and upgrade post-mortem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 29 11:13:05 1996
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 04:31:37 EST."
<9601290931.AA07885@opus.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:12:20 EST
>> At about 5pm, I started a backup of the AFS cell. (I lost the logs
>> for the cloning because I wasn't careful and /tmp is a symlink to
>> /var/tmp on Athena Decstations.) It was interrupted at about 8:00pm
You might wnat to consider sticking a note to this effect in
/afs/sipb/project/newdump/last/do-backups.960128.Z, not that I think
too many people would notice.
>> From 8-10pm, I assembled a list of volumes that had been modified on
>> or since January 22 (the date of the last backup), which totalled 4GB,
>> about .7GB of which had been backed up on sipb.full_3.1. I did a
>> backup of the other 3.3GB on a disk which is now in a case marked
do you mean tape? ----------------^^^^
>> "recovery tape for 1/28/96 SIPB AFS backup failure," using a volume
>> set called "recover". (The tape itself does not have a label on it,
>> on the theory that it can be reused after a week or so.) The backup
>> took until about 2am, and apparently died with an error at the end for
>> no obvious reason:
Jonathon
