[OpenAFS] Re: Recover old vice partition

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:11:16 +0200

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In data marted=EC 18 ottobre 2011 14:11:53, Tom Keiser ha scritto:

> > If there is an AFSIDat directory on it, you can probably just mount=
 the
> > partition on any namei fileserver, and you should be able to get at=
 the
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> With one minor caveat: namei is not endian-agnostic.  Thus, you'll
> have to read your vice partition on a machine of the same endianness
> as the one that originally wrote the data.

Not a problem at all! The original fileserver was running on a classic,=
 32=20
bit, Debian Lenny on top of an Intel P4 PC, and we can use the same har=
dware=20
(almost) and O.S. to restore the data! :) Thanks a lot!!

Stefano
Fabio
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 a problem at all! The original fileserver was running on a classic, 32=
 bit, Debian Lenny on top of an Intel P4 PC, and we can use the same ha=
rdware (almost) and O.S. to restore the data! :) Thanks a lot!!</p>
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