If we took snaps of a device which one or more partitions were on, could we safely restore the device (and therefore the partitions) from the snaps and still have OpenAFS work correctly? Would we have to restore the meta databases as well?
If the snapshots are taken while the fileserver is active, then the partition would need to be salvaged (and fscked first, if the 'inode' fileserver is in use) before it could be used. As long as no volume create/destroy operations (or the _first_ backup or replication of a volume) were done between the snapshot time and the restore time, no database synchronization will be needed. (if synchronization is needed "vos syncvldb <server> <partition>; vos syncserv <server> <partition>" should be sufficient to fix things up; a restore should not be needed and would cause problems if meta operations were done to a partition that is not being regressed.)
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