April 12, 2004

RAHU ready to go

Weekend went well for RAHU, and I’m ready to declare it production.

There was a slight hiccup with backups — since we’re backing up off of snapshot, NetBackup can’t reset the atime of files back to its original after reading them. This isn’t an issue, since the snapshot is read-only and the atime hasn’t changed anyway. Adding the DO_NOT_RESET_FILE_ACCESS_TIME to bp.conf on RAHU makes that work ok. It could slightly mess with the system backups, so I’ll look into making that a policy-specific flag, but for now it doesn’t complain on the home directories backup anymore.

Posted by Rowan Littell at April 12, 2004 10:28 AM