These are leased partitions, and the leaser would rather have extra space then access to the readonly .backup volume. AFS Database Backups. Occational backups are made of the AFS databases. Make sure that the kaserver process did restart using the bos status command. There are several machines which serve as major replication sites.
Campus is our most frequently replicated space.
By putting a campus volume on a replication server the places it can be replicated are limited, and you risk loosing a replication when volumes are moved for ballancing. At one time the zones referred to networks. Because AFS allows only one replication per server, however, it is useful to divide replication sites for ease of administration. Most packages are replicated once for reliability, and, usually, a second time for access speed. By having 3 primary replication machines instead of two the load for replcation access can be distributed over an additional server.