[OpenAFS] Accessing data without network

Jukka Tuominen jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi
Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:22:53 +0300


Excellent! Thank you Russ, I shall try it. 

br, Jukka

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> On 17.8.2014, at 20.43, Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:
> 
> "Jukka Tuominen" <jukka.tuominen@finndesign.fi> writes:
> 
>> I have a backup image of an AFS-server (all services included) that I
>> can run as a virtual machine. I'd like to access the data in the
>> AFS-cell, but the problem is that many network settings have changed
>> since. So, how can I access the data offline as a local administrator?
> 
> The easiest way is probably to use the voldump utility to pull the data
> directly out of the AFS volumes as stored on the local disk into an AFS
> dump file, and then turn that into regular files in the file system using
> restorevol.  That doesn't even require starting the server.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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