[2551] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: RFD - Backup system: tape retiring, system overhaul/upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Nov 20 23:20:03 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:03:34 EST."
<199611200103.AA02937@stan.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:19:51 EST
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> no plans to start doing so. In fact, I suspect it's more likely that
> we'd start backing up the local disks of the AFS servers, since I
> think (although I hope I'm mistaken) that they have important data
> that frequently changes and isn't backed up to tape either directly or
> indirectly (e.g., /usr/afs/db). It's possibly even more likely that
I think you are correct that is is not backed up, although I don;t
think it is an amazingly big deal, since the data is replicated on all
3 afs servers.
Jonathon
