Sean,

I know that Veritas is not supporting OpenAFS, but it works fine. I think, it
will be officially supported soon.
Netbackup is using AFS commands for backup (vos backupsys and vos dump). And
AFS can backup only volumes. But ACL is preserved.

Thanks,
Alex

Sean Godel wrote:

> Hi Alexander, thanks for the reply.  Veritas said they do not support
> OpenAFS at this time but I guess you have not had any problems
> using their client correct?  Also, is the reason individual files cannot
> be restored the nature of the netbackup client or is that just the way
> it is with AFS?  Does netbackup preserve the ACLs?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alexander Lenderman wrote:
>
> >We use Netbackup for Transarc AFS and OpenAFS backup. It works fine but
> >quite slow, because Netbackup runs vos listvol first, than creates
> >backup volumes. With AFS restore you can not restore individual files or
> >directories.
> >Only AFS volume restore is supported. Even if you need a single file you
> >need to find a volume first, restore it to alternative name, mount (fs
> >mkm) and than copy that file out.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Alex
> >
> >Sean Godel wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>We are currently evaluating using OpenAFS in our environment
> >>and I was wondering if people could share their experiences
> >>using Netbackup with AFS.  Would there be any differences restoring
> >>files from an AFS class type as compared to the Standard type?
> >>
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