[OpenAFS-devel] ptclient

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Friday, August 28, 2009 07:18:46 PM -0700 Russ Allbery 
<rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> It looks like ptclient has never been installed going all the way back to
> the IBM days.  Should it stay that way, or should we look at documenting
> it and installing it?
>
> Apparently there's a function in db_verify (which we also don't install by
> default) that dumps the database in the form of a script for ptclient to
> create it, which is sort of interesting if it actually works.

I seem to recall using that, many years ago, to recover from a corrupted 
PRDB.  My recollection is that the output of db_verify was actually not 
directly suitable for use as input to ptclient, and that a fair bit of 
manual massaging was necessary to make everything work.

Today, my recommendation would be to use pt_util for PRDB backups and 
restores.

-- Jeff