Aha, I am a dumbass. I was specifying individual volumes: vos syncvldb hostname partition volumename. However, a vos syncvldb hostname partition (specifying the entire partition instead of individual volumes) restored a sane vldb and brought the data back to life. This is a valuable lesson, that being we are never smart enough to avoid stupid blunders.
Thanks for all your help folks! --Maynard On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought it was `vos syncvldb' that read the disk and updated the vldb if > it found volumes that were in /vicep* and not in the VLDB. > > (Stupid names, I always have to look them up). > > - Warren > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > > > > > Nope. A vos syncserv claims to syncronize, but listvldb doesn't show > > any of my original volumes. vos listvol continues to show volume names, > > disk consumption, etc. Note that I'm doing a vos syncserv hostname > > partition. A vos syncvldb hostname partition volumename claims the volume > > is syncronized but then a vos listvldb doesn't show the entry. A vos > > examine volumename then claims there is "no such entry". > > > > Thanks though, > > --Maynard > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > when performing a vos listvldb. This happened while bringing up a new > > > > fileserver/vlserver/ptserver and entering a mistaken vos syncvldb. Whoops, > > > > > > any reason you can just use vos syncserv to recover now? > > > > > > > now the original server has an empty vldb cloned from the new volume > > > > server. Fortunately, we're not in production yet. However, a vos listvols > > > > lists all the volumes which were previously in the vldb, and the vice > > > > partition which houses the data still appears to contain something. I've > > > > been poking around the documentation trying to figure out how to restore > > > > the volumes short of restoring from tape. I've tries a bos salvage, but no > > > > luck. Is there any way I can specify a volume listed in listvols and > > > > assign it to a specific partition and host to create a new vldb entry > > > > without destroying the original data? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > --Maynard > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > OpenAFS-info mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenAFS-info mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
