[2259] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: backup software upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 29 18:45:43 1996
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:50:00 EST."
<199601292050.PAA02069@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 18:45:27 EST
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@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.
Yes, this is the same thing that Athena is using (modulo CPU/OS
differences). Of course they don't have DECstation backup servers, so
I can't check that the binaries are identical.
>> 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.
Actually, I think we're keeping them around on hodge too. I was
planning on just making a tgz-ball out of /usr/afs/backup, and putting
it in project.newdump.
Jonathon
