[OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 01/15/2011 01:05 PM, Ted Creedon wrote:
> my R/W server died but /vicepa and /vicepb were saved on their raid drives.
> this server also ran the krb5kdc...
>
> there are 2 other RO servers still OK but 2 out of 20 volumes are not up to
> date. both were running upclient etc
>
> the data on the RO servers is:
> /usr/afs/db:
> total 316
> drwx------ 2 root root   4096 May  5  2009 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root   4096 May  6  2009 ../
> -rw------- 1 root root   1088 May  2  2009 bdb.DB0
> -rw------- 1 root root     64 Jan  7 12:18 bdb.DBSYS1
> -rw------- 1 root root  68672 May  5  2009 prdb.DB0
> -rw------- 1 root root  68672 May  5  2009 prdb.DB0.bak
> -rw------- 1 root root     64 Jan  7 12:18 prdb.DBSYS1
> -rw------- 1 root root     64 May  5  2009 prdb.DBSYS1.bak
> -rw------- 1 root root 144448 Jan  7 12:18 vldb.DB0
> -rw------- 1 root root     64 Jan  7 13:50 vldb.DBSYS1
>
> /usr/afs/etc:
> total 80
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 16  2010 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  4096 May  6  2009 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   162 Jan  7 12:17 CellServDB
> -rw------- 1 root root   100 May  6  2009 KeyFile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    10 May  2  2009 NetRestrict
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    11 May  6  2009 ThisCell
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    39 Nov 15  2008 UserList
>
> /usr/afs/local:
> total 24
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan  7 13:53 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May  6  2009 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  313 Apr 30  2009 BosConfig
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   10 May  6  2009 NetRestrict
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Jan  7 13:53 SALVAGE.fs
> srwxr-xr-x 1 root root    0 Jan  7 12:22 fssync.sock=
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May  2  2009 salvage.lock
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   32 Jan  7 11:55 sysid
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   32 Jan  7 11:00 sysid.old
>
>
> what's the best way to proceed after I rekey
>
> PS I also have vos dump files but the 2 aforementiined volumes are not up to
> date.
>
> thanks
>
> tedc
>
I suggest connecting the raid drives to another server, possibly one of 
your R/O servers. Mount the /vicepX partitions, restart the fileserver, 
then run "vos syncserv" and "vos syncvldb" to have the recovered volumes 
be remapped to the different server.

Jason