[2555] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: RFD - Backup system: tape retiring, system overhaul/upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Sat Nov 23 03:05:28 1996
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:04:47 -0500
To: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
Cc: star-maintainers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199611190342.WAA11514@harlie.mit.edu>
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
> * Amanda:
> Eric (nocturne) is supposedly working on a splufty new backup system
> called Amanda and making it useful. If this is expected to be
> available soon and adaptable for our needs, we might want to use it.
> Eric?
I'm not sure when it'll be ready; at the moment, it's the project I work on
when I'm not being interrupted by anything else.
I'm pretty sure it'll be adaptable for our needs. The biggest issue I can
think of will be either deciding that we trust a single service-key-file
with root on all our servers, or enhancing the source code to let the backup
program use its operator's kerberos tickets. (At the moment the backup
server is designed to be run by cron on the server, which krsh's to the
backup clients as root to get data.)
- Eric
