[OpenAFS] Ubik patch? (Re: Win2K AFS server, mirror data+config to RHEL4.5 new Server?)

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:32:56 -0400


pt_util can be used to dump and restore the PTS database actually

Derrick


On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com 
 > wrote:

> I suspect you best bet is going to be:
>
> 1. establish a new cell using OpenAFS
> 2. configure it for authentication from AD or whatever you plan to use
> for a krb5 realm
> 3. "vos dump" each of your volumes from the existing cell and "vos
> restore" them to the new cell
> 4. there are not good tools for exporting and re-importing the
> protection database.  but you can list the existing entries from the
> current cell and write a script to construct equivalent entries in the
> new cell.  Just make sure you assign all users and groups the same IDs
> that they have in the current cell.
>