On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:10:55PM +0100, u+codalist-wk5r_at_chalmers.se wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:31:31PM -0800, root wrote:
> > When is .backup appended? 
> 
> [/vice/bin/]volutil backup

Jan wrote also on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:18:31 -0700:

"You shouldn't have to create the backup volumes I think backup.cc
already does the equivalent 'volutil lock ; volutil backup'. In fact it
prefers to do it that way because then it can lock all replicas
simultaneously and really get a consistent snapshot of the state of all
replicas of a volume."

Both programs actually initiate rpc-operations which result in creation
of backup volumes.

Note that in the description of the backup subsystem one talks about
"making clones" which is confusing as a "readonly clone" is a different
thing even if similar to a backup volume. Actually it is backup volumes
which are used for backups.

Regards,
Rune