[OpenAFS] LiveCD for openafs disaster recovery scenarios ?

[Lars Schimmer]

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Madhusudan Singh wrote:
> Hello
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> 	At least one (and possibly two) hard disks on the machine (has RAID 5 =
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> rebuild did not help too much) that runs our openafs cell failed today.=
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> is a Debian machine. Partition /usr is down and attempts to mount it fa=
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> with bad superblock messages. As a result, all network and many other s=
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> commands (awk, etc.) are inaccessible.
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> Now, is there a live CD that can be used to run the machine so that the=
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> can at least copy over their data ? I think a reinstall is indicated.

www.grml.org - it has OpenAFS and krb5 built in.

> The two partitions housing /vicepa and /vicepb are not affected. Is the=
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> way to retrieve data directly from the hard disks ?

yeah, sure, there are a lots of ways...

> Thanks.

MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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