[907] in SIPB-AFS-requests
DECstation charon backups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun May 23 16:29:10 1993
Date: Sun, 23 May 93 16:28:54 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@gza.com>
To: sipb-staff@mit.edu, charon-maintainers@mit.edu
Cc: sipb-afsreq@mit.edu
I would like to see us start doing regular backups of picayune/charon
ASAP. It's going to have user home directories on it very soon, and
it has other data that would be difficult to reconstruct from scratch
(e.g., the FAQ and usenet-addresses archives).
I would like to see us doing weekly level-0 dumps to tape, saved for
at least a month, and daily incremental dumps.
I don't get over to the SIPB office very often nowadays, but I'm
willing to deal with the level-0 dumps remotely, assuming that I can
find someone to put the tape in the drive over in the office when I'm
ready to do the dump. I can do this during the day, since I'm at work
every day; is it likely that there will be people in the office during
the day during the summer?
Alternatively, we can tie the AFS cell backup and the charon backup
together, so that the latter gets done right after the former.
Another option is to do the charon backup into a volume in the sipb
cell, so that it gets dumped to tape automatically when the AFS backup
gets done. However, it's not obvious to me that we have enough disk
space free in the AFS cell to do this.
I think that the daily incremental backups should be done
automatically into a volume in the AFS cell. They can be gzipped, and
won't take up much space compared to the total amount of data on the
machine (almost a gigabyte right now).
What do people think?
jik
