[8375] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Backups using commercial products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian T. Huntley)
Tue Jan 2 16:40:37 2001
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:16:25 -0500 (EST)
From: "Brian T. Huntley" <bth@clarkson.edu>
To: Earl R Shannon <Earl_Shannon@ncsu.edu>
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Earl R Shannon wrote:
// Hello,
//
// We are wanting to improve our backups here at NCSU and are looking
// at various ways to do it, including commercial products.
// Are any of you using products such as Budtool or ADSM/Tivoli, etc.?
//
// Something that might can happen now that AFS has been opened sourced
// is an AFS aware tar and or dump command, ie, one that keeps track of
// acl's on a directory. I really think things would improve for us if
// we could stream data to tape without having to access the database
// servers. Yes, other means of maintaining some form of a backup database
// would be needed, but Arla combined with an AFS tar or afsdump
// ( to coin a word ) would probably do the trick nicely.
//
// Regards,
// Earl Shannon
// --
// Systems Programmer, Computing Services, Information Technology
// NC State University.
// http://www4.ncsu.edu/~ershanno
//
//
Earl:
We use ADSM (soon to be TSM 4.1) to back up our AFS cell. In fact, we got
the software specifically to do that. It was(is?) the only commercial
software we found that integrated out of the box with AFS.
We also use it to backup our UNIX(AIX & Solaris), Novell5, NT and 2000
servers. Overall, we have been very happy with it.
Regards,
Brian
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