[OpenAFS] afs cell migration

david l goodrich dlg@dsrw.org
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:48:09 -0500


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> 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

this worked fine, too, if anyone was curious.
  --david

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> >
> > 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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