[OpenAFS] Migration from Transarc AFS to OpenAFS

[Andrew Bacchi]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 09:53, Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote:
> Thank you to the list for the previous helpful advice about "Out of date
> entries in the /afs directory".  Now for the next question !
> 
 My plan is that once I have installed OpenAFS on
> the Linux systems, I configure the cell locally (on the servers) to consist
> of N, A and B which will allow me to move all the volumes from N to A and/or
> B (I think I could also add C as long as I configure that system to be a
> fileserver only).  
You could also bring up A and B as new DB/file servers, and build C to
assume the ID of N.  Once you have C ready to go live, kill N and
replace it with C (a few minutes downtime).  This will give you
continuity on the N identity and you only need to add A and B to the
current CellServDB.

I migrated 4 DB servers without changing the identity or the CellServDB.

> Does this seem to be a workable plan ?  If not, what are the flaws ?  I will
> have a separate test cell which I will use to make sure that I can install
> and run a cell using OpenAFS.  Many thanks in advance.

Your plan does sound very workable, whether you reuse N identity, or
not.
 
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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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