The fileserver processes are restarted, and volumes salvaged on a regular basis. This servers at least three purposes Prevents memory leaks in fileserver processes. Transarc has steadily removed these and other problems resulting from long tern process running, but oddities do still occur. Rotates log files. Even if there were no memory, file, socket leaks the log files do continue to grow as the afs server processes run.
Corruption does occur due to, oh, who knows.
This takes place on the 2nd, 3rd or 4th Sunday of the month as show in the table above. Cron which lists each file server and partition, and the days that backupsys should be run. Some partitions do not have daily vos backup runs. These are leased partitions, and the leaser would rather have extra space then access to the readonly .backup volume. AFS Database Backups.