[393] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: errors in tonight's backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Wed Mar 6 12:05:12 1991
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 12:04:41 -0500
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU, sipb-afsreq@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [383]
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I've been informed by Richard that the backup software which SIPB is
using is ancient. This may be the cause of the mysterious errors we see
everythime we make a backup. Upgrading to the new version will
probably make the backups more reliable. One thing to think about is
that the backup tape formats between the pre-3.0 beta versions which we
are using and the current AFS 3.1 versions are not compatible, so there
would be a month when our backup tapes would be in two different
formats. I don't think this is an insurmountable problem, however.
Comments?
- Ted
