[130] in Athena_Backup_System
status-update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Diane Delgado)
Thu Aug 24 10:58:26 1995
To: athena-backup@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:58:11 EDT
From: Diane Delgado <delgado@MIT.EDU>
I thought to send out a status update, since I'm not physically
on site for awhile. I can do this periodically if the team
finds it useful.
- The core technologies manual is complete
- The rpc with Kerbers auth and data integrity is now working
fine on Solaris (there was previously a bug with the
data integrity which has since been resolved).
- The state of the master component is :
- all database only functionality has been through developer test
- I've made a fake slave so that the tape-related functionality
can undergo testing. This is basically a skeleton rpc server
which registers itself with the master and supports the interface
describe in the slave document. It doesn't interact with real
devices nor does it really perform dumps and restores. It
just returns fake results for testing the master.
- The following tape-related functions have gone through developer
test: label, verify_meida, job_done, backup. The "label" and
"verify_media" testing are complete and the
"backup" testing is almost finished (probably 3 more days or so).
To Be Done:
- finish testing backup, restore, scan functions.
- actually turn on the messaging facilities (zephyr and mail).
- review code and specs and update whichever is out of sync.
- port the RPC to the other client platforms.
- provide linemode support for the UI
- do something about the GUI (I'm open to suggestions on this one).
