[OpenAFS] Howto speedup the restore of a crashed fileserver

[Stephen Joyce]

http://backuppc4afs.sourceforge.net/

It won't help with your current situation, but it does everything you want=
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and is much easier to configure (via gui) than anything else I've seen.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Brian Sebby wrote:

> I ended up writing a script to use the commmand 'vos dump' to dump each
> AFS volume to a local disk partition, then back up that partition with
> standard backup utilities.  The 'vos dump' command creates a file on the
> local disk that contains the entire volume, including all of the ACLs.
> Since you can have links in AFS to the same volume multiple times, it's a
> lot safer to do volume-based backups rather than walking AFS.
>
> I could get you a copy of my dump script if you're interested; I'd just
> have to scrub out all of our site-specific information.
>
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:14:39PM +0100, Jose Calhariz wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:41:16PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>> Jose Calhariz <jose.calhariz@tagus.ist.utl.pt> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:25:03AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>>>>> Jose Calhariz <jose.calhariz@tagus.ist.utl.pt> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have lost a fileserver because of a corruption on the reiserfs v3.
>>>>>> Something like 1000 volumes and 100GB of data were lost.  The backups
>>>>>> were made using amanda with standard tar.
>>>>>
>>>>>> My problem is the recovering of the data to the surviving filesystem
>>>>>> is taking too much time.  Something like 7 hours to recover 7 GB.
>>>>>> Will I need 100hours to recover from tar 100GB?
>>>>>
>>>>> What did you tar up?  I can think of a lot of possibilities (the raw =
namei
>>>>> filesystem, the contents of AFS archived with admin credentials, tarb=
alls
>>>>> of volume dumps), and the answer somewhat depends.
>>>>
>>>> I have tarballs with the contents of AFS using admin credentials.
>>>
>>> Note that you'll have to manually repair the acls; tar doesn't save
>>> them.
>>
>> It's on my todo list, to find a command to export and import AFS
>> acls.  So it can be collected by tar.
>>
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>
>>     Jos=E9 Calhariz
>>
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