[OpenAFS] restoring volumes

[Dexter 'Kim' Kimball]

Let's see.

If the two servers are in the same cell the vos restore will fail -- can't
have 2 instances of a RW volume, and the example you give would leave
homestaff.cowboy as a RW on two different servers.

If the two servers are in different cells then you want to get admin tokens
for both cells and use "vos dump .... | vos restore .... -cell <othercell>"

If you want to replicate the volume within a given cell use "vos addsite "
"vos release"

If you want to replicate the volume within a given cell but want default
access to be to the RW volume, create a RW mount point (fs mkm .... -rw).

Not sure what you're after.  Probably a case I didn't cover :)

Kim


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Kim (Dexter) Kimball
CCRE, Inc.
kim<dot>kimball<at>jpl.nasa.gov
dhk<at>ccre.com



     -----Original Message-----
     From: Ron Croonenberg [mailto:ronc@depauw.edu] 
     Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 12:05 PM
     To: dhk@ccre.com; openafs-info@openafs.org
     Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] restoring volumes
     
     
     Ahh...ok...
     
     Well let me explain what I am trying to do, at least it's 
     a plan I have.
     
     - I want to dump a volume with vos on the old server, let's say
       "homestaff.cowboy"
     - move the dumpfile to the new server
     - restore the dumpfile with vos on the new server to a 
     volume called
       homestaff.cowboy
     
     So maybe I need a bit different approach ?
     
     Ron
     
     
     >>> "Dexter 'Kim' Kimball" <dhk@ccre.com> 08/05/05 1:02 PM >>>
     Ron,
     
     Specify a different value after "-name"
     
     The volume will be restored to the specified server and 
     partition -- as a
     read write volume.
     
     The ".backup" volume name extension won't work (it's 
     reserved) and is
     causing your "restore name" to exceed the 22 char limit.
     
     If you want to restore over the existing RW volume put it 
     on the same server
     and partition, use the same name, and specify -overwrite.
     
     Otherwise give it a new name (homestaff.cowboy.R e.g.), 
     mount it, fix the
     existing volume ... etc.
     
     Kim
     
     
     
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     Kim (Dexter) Kimball
     CCRE, Inc.
     kim<dot>kimball<at>jpl.nasa.gov
     dhk<at>ccre.com
     
     
     
          -----Original Message-----
          From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org 
          [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Ron 
          Croonenberg
          Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 11:28 AM
          To: openafs-info@openafs.org
          Subject: [OpenAFS] restoring volumes
          
          
          Hello,
          
          I dumped a volume on an old afs server and try to restore 
          it on the new server. This is what I see:
          
          [root@afs-1 vicepb]# vos restore -server 
          afs-1.csc.depauw.edu -partition /vicepa -name 
          homestaff.cowboy.backup -file 
          /vicepb/homestaff.cowboy.backup -cell afs-1.csc.depauw.edu 
                                                                
               
          
          vos: the name of the volume homestaff.cowboy.backup 
          exceeds the size limit
          
          Does vos restore create the volume ?  I didn't see the 
          volume homestaff.cowboy.backup.  There is a volume called 
          homestaff.cowboy on the new server though.
          
          Ron
          
          
          
          
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