[OpenAFS] Moving Volumes

Michael Aldrich maldrich@reserveamerica.com
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:54:15 -0500


> > The volumes are rarely modified by staff. They contain static pages for
my
> > site. If the RW volume is being moved, can the RO volume take its place
in
> > order to ensure no outage?
>
> If you're using RO volumes then you're not really moving the volume.
> What you really do is:
>         vos addsite <new site>
>         vos release
>         vos remsite <old site>

Understood. Although, by running vos addsite <new site>, this creates a RO
copy on the new server. Can I create (using vos release) a RW site on the
same server from the RO volume? The idea here is to retire the old AFS
server.
Thanks
Mike

> There should not be any outage noticed during this series of operations.
>
> -derek
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins
>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>        derek@ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>