[OpenAFS] Moving volumes

[Sanjay Dharmavaram]

Thank you, for your replies. I guess I was not really clear with my 
question...let me be more clear this time.
   I have a really old server running in my lab and the aim was to 
install a new server and transfer all the contents to this new server. 
But since I am novice to the whole concept of AFS, I dont want to screw 
up things my moving volumes to the new server only to realize that I did 
something wrong in the process. I though that "copying" ( if such a 
thing exists) would be safer. But from the response of  Russ only one 
copy should exist on a cell so I am not really sure what to do.
    The old server is a file server which uses kerberos (KDC) for 
authentication. I have added the new server as an additional server to 
the cell to which the old server belongs. I am not sure if these are 
sufficient but in any case, I thank you all for the help.
Sanjay.

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 5:29 PM -0400 10/12/06, Marcus Watts wrote:
>> Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> had flamed:
>>  > On Thursday, October 12, 2006 04:47:39 PM -0400 Sanjay Dharmavaram
>>>  <sd282@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>  >     I am installing a new AFS server on my network which already has
>>  > > an AFS server running. The aim is to replace the already running
>>  > > server with the new one. Is there anyway I can copy volumes and
>>  > > user accounts from the old server onto the new server? (I would
>>  > > prefer copying instead of moving so that I don't lose data if I
>>  > > screw up).
>
>> Here's what Russ actually said:
>>  > Well, normally you just use vos move to move all the volumes from
>>  > one file server to the other.  But the way in which you're asking
>>  > the question makes me think that there may be some deeper
>>  > misunderstandings.
>>  >
>>  > AFS volumes should live in only one place (except for read-only
>>  > replicas), so you probably don't want to try to copy one volume to
>>  > multiple servers at the same time unless you have very special needs.
>>
>> which I'm guessing the original correspondent might not have found
>> completely helpful in any case.  Useful information that might enable
>> others to give more useful answers would include:
>>     is this an AFS *file server*
>>     is this an AFS *db server*
>>     is this a kerberos KDC?
>> (these answers are not mutually exclusive).
>> Also,  [...]
>
> One more question.  From the original question, it is not clear to
> me if you (Sanjay ) brought up a new server as part of your already-
> existing AFS cell, or if you brought up this new server as part of
> some *separate* AFS cell which you had put together for testing
> purposes.
>
> Just wanted to make sure we understand what you're trying to do.
>