Overview of Backup System Configuration
| Chapter 6. Configuring the AFS Backup System |

## Overview of Backup System Configuration

Before you can use the Backup System to back up and restore data, you must configure several of its basic components. The indicated sections of this chapter explain how to perform the following configuration tasks:

- Determining a tape's capacity and a tape device's filemark size, and recording them in the /usr/afs/backup/tapeconfig file (see Configuring the tapeconfig File)

- Determining how to grant administrative privilege to backup operators (see Granting Administrative Privilege to Backup Operators)

- Configuring Tape Coordinator machines, tape devices, and backup data files (see Configuring Tape Coordinator Machines and Tape Devices)

- Defining volume sets and volume entries (see Defining and Displaying Volume Sets and Volume Entries)

- Defining dump levels to create a dump hierarchy (see Defining and Displaying the Dump Hierarchy)

- Labeling tapes (see Writing and Reading Tape Labels)

- Creating a device configuration file to automate the backup process (see Automating and Increasing the Efficiency of the Backup Process)

If you have already configured all of the components required for performing a backup dump or restore operation, you can proceed to the instructions in Backing Up Data and Restoring and Recovering Data.

Introduction to Backup System Features |  | Configuring the tapeconfig File