Re: [9fans] How to maintain a venti server

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> + How can I archive my venti? Heiko on this list mentioned burning
> the arenas to a disk.

rdarena can be used to copy a sealed arena out for burning
to a CD or DVD.  wrarena can copy it back to the venti server.

> + Am I supposed to run maintenance tasks of ventiaux(8) on a regular
> basis? If yes when and which?

Those are only necessary if your disks go bad
and you are trying to clean up the pieces or
restore from backup.

> + I want to use a venti server as backup server for a some machines
> in my network, plan9 and others. What are my best options? I thought
> about using p9p's vac to copy the other machine's backups to venti, but I
> would like to make them available again through a nice directory
> structure a la dumpfs on the plan9 server. (Which in turn
> could be exported via nfs)

depends on what the others are.  if you are backing up
linux/bsd machines and don't care about seeing the
plan 9 backups from those machines, you could use
the p9p vbackup/vnfs programs.
http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html

russ