[2547] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: RFD - Backup system: tape retiring, system overhaul/upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Nov 19 15:49:20 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:57:20 -0500
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[5309] in RTFM_Maintainers_Archive"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
[hostlist taken from btc:/usr/local/rmt/.klogin, minus dragons-lair]
as far as I know bed and beacon do ont use the OSU backup system.
Along these lines... According to the docs for backup-2.6, the system
is designed to have a single database, which is accessible to all the
machines to be backed up and knows about all the tapes, runs, etc. We
currently have individual databases for each host. If we decide to
implement the above numbering scheme, we might want to consider going
to a single database system. Was this considered when we first set up
this system? (I couldn't find anything relevant to it in the
anxiety-maint meeting, searching for "backup" in the subject.)
This is for the same reason that we don't just backup all of the
servers at once onto a DLT cartridge. It requires dependencies in
root access to various servers that SIPB has not been able to agree
upon.
--
Jonathon
