[2258] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: backup software upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Jan 29 15:50:28 1996
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:52:33 EST."
<199601291952.OAA09302@the-other-woman.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:50:00 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> cp -p /mit/opssrc/afs.33a/pmax_ul4/dest/etc{backup,butc} /afs/sipb/project/newdump/pmax_ul4
Is this the software that ops is using to do backups? Make sure it
is; the recent backup software from Transarc requires the backup
daemon to be running on the db servers and stores te backup database
online, rather than in files on the backup client.
Since Athena is not running said server, it is clear that they are not
using the recent backup software. So, I want to make sure that we get
the software they they are using.
> On a vaguely related note, does anyone object to my nuking the two
> copies of hodge:/usr/afs/backup in project.newdump and replacing them
> with a new one? Is this something we should be doing regularly?
Go ahead. Yes, this should be done relatively often. Actually, I
think it is safe to just copy the new directory over the old one.
Files that get re-writen should be replaced, but it is perfectly safe
to keep old DB files around.
-derek
