[OpenAFS] Some restoration advice

[Steve Devine]

Steve Devine wrote:
> I had a partition fail .. corrupted disk etc. Unable to recover.
> Several RW vols on it.
> So I restore the volumes and now I have this ( below ):
> Two instances of RW vols on same machine and partition.
> I think the vldb is out of sysnc with the volserver.
> I think this calls for syncvldb but that makes me nervous. Any advice?
> ****************************************
> vos ex 1937032614
> svc.ml.cbordwin                  1937032614 RW     158516 K  On-line
>     afsfs4.cl.msu.edu /vicepa
>     RWrite 1937032614 ROnly          0 Backup          0
>     MaxQuota     200000 K
>     Creation    Thu Jul  5 20:31:15 2007
>     Copy        Thu Jul  5 20:30:35 2007
>     Backup      Sun Jul  1 22:10:24 2007
>     Last Update Thu Jul  5 20:31:15 2007
>     0 accesses in the past day (i.e., vnode references)
>  
>     RWrite: 1937032614    ROnly: 1937032615    Backup: 1937032616
>     number of sites -> 4
>        server afsfs4.cl.msu.edu partition /vicepa RW Site
>        server afsfs7.cl.msu.edu partition /vicepa RO Site
>        server afsfs4.cl.msu.edu partition /vicepa RO Site
>        server afsfs4.cl.msu.edu partition /vicepa RW Site
> *************************************************************
>
>   
Ok
Got it figured out .. did a syncvldb for the lost vols that I had not 
yet restored .. vos removed the RW vols on the flaky server that I had 
restored and that were showing up twice. Then  vos convertROtoRW  the RO 
vols then addsite and release.
The convertROtoRW command is a god send.
/sd


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Steve Devine
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