[OpenAFS] Management of UBIK database files

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Tue, 6 May 2008 10:33:57 -0400


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> For some time, I've been using pt_util to dump my pts database at
>  intervals, and I presume it would work if I wanted to dump the
>  database and recreate it using
>
>      pt_util -g -m -u >/tmp/prdb.dump
>      (delete database on all servers and restart the ptserver)
>      pt_util -w </tmp/prdb.dump
>
>  In the case of the volume database, I presume the simplest thing
>  to do is to delete the database and then run 'vos syncv' for each
>  server, as there doesn't seem to be any utility for dumping and/or
>  restoring the vldb.
>

You can run vldb_check to dump and fix, but not reload, it.