[OpenAFS] afs cell migration

[david l goodrich]

> Um,
>
> I must be missing something, but why doesn't "vos move" fill the bill.
>

you must be missing something, indeed.

> [...] We want to change the server (hardware), but no[t] the disk libra=
ry
> (vicepxx).  [...]

I also think (thanks, kula) that setting up the new machine as a
fileserver, moving the disks over to the new machine, then doing the vos
syncserv/vos syncvldb dance on all the fileservers will also work.  I'm
going to try it myself in a couple days.
  --david


>
> Jose Angel Herrero wrote:
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> We have an afs cell (atc.unican.es) installed in a HP Proliand DL380
>> G3 and Linux (Debian 3.0 r2) server. The afs partitions (vicepxx)  for
>> this cell are located in a HP MSA20 (SATA disk drive storage enclosure
>> with 12 SATA disks with Ultra320 SCSI host connectivity and 6 TB).
>> Now, we want migrate this cell (fileserver and dbserver) from this
>> server to another server and we do not want to lose the data of our
>> cell. We want to change the server (hardware), but no the disk library
>> (vicepxx). We want to conserve  the data in this disk library.
>>
>> So, we would like to know if there is some mechanism from afs admin
>> commands suite that allows us to migrate it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> *   Jose Angel Herrero Velasco*
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