[OpenAFS] restoring root.cell (RW) when main server dies....

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Christopher Arnold wrote:

>
> Hey guys.. I'm having an issue in which the server housing our RW version
> of root.cell and root.afs has turned to toast.  It could take hours to
> get parts
> to fix the issue and wanted to know if there was a clean procedure for
> Creating a new RW volume from one of the various RO copies we still
> have online.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

vos dump volume.readonly -time 0 > somefile
vos restore server partition volume -file somefile -overwrite full