[153] in Athena_Backup_System
Re: Review of Requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Dec 18 15:48:41 1995
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: vrt@MIT.EDU, athena-backup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:50:10 EST."
<8kpQLmgGgE47AkRY5F@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:48:32 EST
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
>> The athena backup system will backup and restore at the granularity of:
>>
>> An entire disk partition full of volumes.
>> A single volume.
>> A single file. <- Did we ever decide to do this or to NOT do this?
Given the way we are dumping things, restoring single files is not
terribly practical. the current methodology is to restore the entire
volume under a new name (generally foo.rst for volume foo) and
mounting this volume in /afs/athena.mit.edu/service/restore. We
should probably add a req that the system should be able to either
restore over an existing volume (not the default) or to another volume
name.
Jonathon
