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

[Jason Edgecombe]

Richard Eggert wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>wrote:
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>> sorry, forgot to CC you.
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>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> Jason
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> 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.
>
>   
Unfortunately, restorevol is not documented at this time. It's on the
documentation todo list.
Sorry about that.

Jason