[OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS appropriate?

[Nathan Neulinger]

Actually, you don't even need to go to that much trouble, just install a
copy of the voldump tool (built as part of the normal build now, at
least with cvs/1.3.x I believe), it will generate a dump directly from
the local data without even running a server. Might only work with namei
though, don't have a inode fileserver to test it with.

-- Nathan

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 18:16, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> Well, partially true.  It's not easy to take what's on a vice partition and 
> just turn it into files.  But there's no real metadata stored elsewhere 
> that can't be regenerated, so pretty much all you need to do is attach 
> those disks to a machine of the right platform, drop an AFS fileserver and 
> volserver on it, run in noauth mode, and dump the volumes.  You don't need 
> the central infrastructure to support that sort of recovery, if you don't 
> plan on resurrecting your cell.

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