[OpenAFS] Howto speedup the restore of a crashed fileserver

[Lars Schimmer]

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chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:
> In message <87lkamg0ao.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>,Russ Allbery writes:
>> If you've archived AFS via tar using admin credentials, I'm not sure
>> there's anything you can do that's faster than creating new volumes an=
d
>> untarring the contents into those volumes.  You can do that directly o=
n
>> the relevant file server to reduce your network latency a little.
>=20
> i would guess that vos restore restore from a file would be a bit faste=
r
> than using tar to copy in and out of the cache manager.  i dont have
> any timing to prove this one way or the other though.
>=20
> as for dumping, vol-dump seems pretty speedy but its got a few
> issues, as i recall:
>=20
> 	http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2004-July/010774.html

If locking is the problem, create a backup volume of the RW volume and
dump the backup volume. This way vos dump doesn't lock the RW volume.
Works fine here.

MfG,
Lars Schimmer
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