[OpenAFS] Re: Recover old vice partition

ProbaNet info@probanet.it
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:01:13 +0200 

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In data marted=C3=AC 18 ottobre 2011 10:43:07, Andrew Deason ha scritto=
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> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:13:32 +0200
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> ProbaNet <info@probanet.it> wrote:
> > Hello!
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> > =09We have an old vice partition (/vicepc) on an old backup
> >=20
> > hard-disk with data actually not used. Is there a way to access
> > that data? We would like to bring its volumes online, if
> > possible. Thank you!
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> How old is it? Does it contain a directory called AFSIDat? Do you kno=
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> what platform the fileserver was that last used the partition?

First of all, thanks a lot for your help! :)
Not so old, around 1 year. It's an ext3 filesystem used on a Debian Len=
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with openafs v 1.4.??

> If there is an AFSIDat directory on it,

Yes that dir is there!

> you can probably just mount the
> partition on any namei fileserver, and you should be able to get at t=
he
> data. The most convenient way may be to 'vos dump' all of the volumes=
 on
> it (you can get a list of volumes via 'vos listvol'), and then 'vos
> restore' the volume dumps somewhere else.

Fantastic!! Thank you very much, we didn't thought it was that simple! =
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and thanks again!!

Stefano
Fabio
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 so old, around 1 year. It's an ext3 filesystem used on a Debian Lenny,=
 with openafs v 1.4.??</p>
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; If there is an AFSIDat directory on it,</p>
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; partition on any namei fileserver, and you should be able to get at t=
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; data. The most convenient way may be to 'vos dump' all of the volumes=
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tastic!! Thank you very much, we didn't thought it was that simple! See=
 you and thanks again!!</p>
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fano</p>
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