[Fwd: Re: [OpenAFS] Recovering data from volumes after loss of cell]

Richard Eggert richard.eggert+afs@gmail.com
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:24:49 -0400


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On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>wrote:

> sorry, forgot to CC you.
>
> The restorevol command can restore a volume dump to non-afs space.
> voldump + restorevol might be what you need, but setting up a temporary
> DBserver/fileserver might be easier. If you have dumps on tape, you can
> use the read_tape command to read those without an AFS server.
>
> This is 10 years old, but might help:
> IBM AFS Disaster Recovery:
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=961&context=SSXMUG&dc=DA400&uid=swg27004312&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct961other
>
> Jason
>
>
>
I came across that document during my initial search for a solution, but I
do not have a tape drive, so it did not seem to apply.

Where is restorevol documented?  It does not appear in the Administrator
Reference or the list of man pages, though it is mentioned in the man page
for read_tape.

-- 
Rich

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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Jason Edgecombe <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jason@rampaginggeek.com">jason@rampaginggeek.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
sorry, forgot to CC you.<br>
<br>The restorevol command can restore a volume dump to non-afs space.<br>
voldump + restorevol might be what you need, but setting up a temporary<br>
DBserver/fileserver might be easier. If you have dumps on tape, you can<br>
use the read_tape command to read those without an AFS server.<br>
<br>
This is 10 years old, but might help:<br>
IBM AFS Disaster Recovery:<br>
<a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=961&amp;context=SSXMUG&amp;dc=DA400&amp;uid=swg27004312&amp;loc=en_US&amp;cs=UTF-8&amp;lang=en&amp;rss=ct961other" target="_blank">http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=961&amp;context=SSXMUG&amp;dc=DA400&amp;uid=swg27004312&amp;loc=en_US&amp;cs=UTF-8&amp;lang=en&amp;rss=ct961other</a><br>

<br>
Jason<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><p>I came across that document during my initial search for a solution, but I do not have a tape drive, so it did not seem to apply.</p><p>Where is restorevol documented? &nbsp;It does not appear in the Administrator Reference or the list of man pages, though it is mentioned in the man page for read_tape.<br clear="all">
</p><br>-- <br>Rich<br>
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