Questions: I can't easily test these.Obviously a 'vos syncvldb up' needs to happen at some point. 1. Is it necessary (and wise) to use 'vos delentry -server downserver' beforehand to avoid VLDB issues? 2. OR... will 'vos syncvldb downserver' then 'vos syncvldb up' cause the dead VLDB entries to clear out due to the server being inaccessible?
Our servers are designed just to do this -- be able to mount the disks from one onto another server if a physical machine fails. Easiest way to handle this is - move the disks but then RESTART THE SERVER without them. Then do a syncvldb. If you don't have the "down" server running when you do the sync, it will try to contact the old server, say, "Well I can't confirm with the old server, you lose." The other way to do this -- what I've done in disasters -- is move the disks and then use "vos changeloc" to tell the vldb the volumes have moved. e. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
