[OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

[Stephan Wiesand]

On 2014-01-17, at 16:43, Coy Hile <coy.hile@coyhile.com> wrote:

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>> I have a perl script from 2005 that could do this - but only for pure =
r/w volumes. If there's a backup or readonly clone on the same =
partition, it will probably fail miserably. It's not polished, may have =
to be adapted to current perl versions etc. And I think it recovered =
nothing but the file content and the path, not mode/owner/ACLs...
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>> Setting up a server is certainly the better option and may well be =
easier and faster. But if you're desperate enough, let me know.
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> along not completely dissimilar lines=85
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> I=92ve currently got a bunch of old data (couple hundred gigs maybe) =
from vos dump that I=92d like to be able to examine to see exactly =
what=92s there anymore. Right now, my personal cell lives on a couple =
VMs out in various public clouds, and I haven=92t got around to standing =
up a fileserver inside the firewall yet.
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> is there a tool (preferably stand-alone) that I could run on those old =
dumps to copy the data out of them into a local directory on, say, my =
mac.  Then I can copy whatever of it I want to keep back into AFS later.

afsdump_scan and afsdump_extract are part of the OpenAFS source tree but =
not built by default. They build fine (there are make targets for them) =
and basically work. There's an improved version by jhutz in =
/afs/grand.central.org/software/dumpscan/dumpscan-1.2.tar.gz that was =
more difficult to build IIRC.

	Stephan

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Stephan Wiesand
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