Hi Russ et al, Thanks for the input, and your advice is well taken.
I figured out my problem. On my 2nd box, I changed the cell name without understanding the effects. I found this webpage: http://www.rz.uni-hohenheim.de/netzwerkbetriebssysteme/afs36/debug/admin/cellname.html thanks again Russ. -Robin -------------------------- Robin H. Yamaguchi Physics Computing Services UC Santa Barbara -------------------------- On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Russ Allbery wrote: > Robin Yamaguchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm going through the process of a bare-metal restore on our AFS server > > for testing purposes. On a 2nd machine, running the same OS (redhat 9) > > and same version on OpenAFS (1.2.9). I got the AFS server running in a > > new cell w/ no problem. > > > To restore my ka and pt entries, I copied over /usr/afs/db/kaserver.* > > and /usr/afs/db/ptserver.* files from the 1st machine to the 2nd, > > properly shutting down those services before touching those files on > > both machines. > > I know this doesn't exactly help with the exercise that you're going > through, but far and away the best way of replicating the database files > to another server is to just install all the server software on a second > machine with an empty database file, copy over the KeyFile (securely!), > add it to CellServDB on the existing database machine, and kick the > database server processes on both machines. > > They'll talk to each other, figure out that the second machine doesn't > have a database, replicate the database via Ubik, and you'll be all set. > > The best way, IMO, to do AFS database backups is to have enough machines > around that you never lose them all at once.... (Of course, if you get > corruption that then replicates, this strategy doesn't help.) > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
