Hi, On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:31:55AM -0400, Steve Devine wrote:
[snip] > >If you can afford some downtime, the most efficient way is to simply copy > >the files from /vicepa to /vicepb on the server's filesystem: > > > > cd /vicepa;cp -a . /vicepb > > > >Make sure, /vicepb is empty before that. > > > >Warning: This worked for me lots of times but be carefull anyway. > > > >Regards, > > > >Frank > >_______________________________________________ > >OpenAFS-info mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > > > Wow this seems like a recipe for disaster. Do you then sync the vldb or > rename the partiton to vicepa Sorry - I forgot. Of course the data partition name has to be the same after the copy process. I tried it once using syncvldb and ended up having multiple RW instances of the same volume on the server. I mostly use cp for simple harddisk upgrades (on small machines). For Multi-TB-servers vos move to a different server is the better choice mainly because of the low uptime. Regards, Frank _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
