[OpenAFS] disaster recovery

[Dimitris Zilaskos]

 	Thnank you for your tips,

So far i was able to either restore from the backup or salvage most of the 
data. However I would like to recover some of the most recent bits that are
currently lying in lost+found. Is there a way?

We do have ro copies of all volumes. Unfortunately vos release stopped 
working about a month ago. Possibly due to the same reasons that resulted 
to yesterday's disaster.

> If you have a copy of your /vicepa with correct modebits, ownership,
> and group settings for the files you may use this instead of your old 
> /vicepa.
>
> It is possible tar/untar vicep-partitions and to use them after that again. 
> If you do that on another fileserver you should stop the corrupted one, start 
> the new one and do a "vos syncvldb <newserver>" in order to update the volume 
> location database. This will overwrite the location of each volume found on 
> the new server. If this doesn't work try "vos syncserv <newserver>" (I never 
> understood which one of those does what, but one of them does the job).
>
> You need then probably a "fs checkvol" on the client that he gets the new 
> location.
>
> You should also think about having RO-volumes of your RW-volumes on other 
> servers in the future. Then you easily can do a "vos convertROtoRW ..." to 
> get again working cell.


 	Cheers,

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