Armin Burchardt wrote: > Hi Richard! > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 02:19:46PM -0400, Richard Eggert wrote: > >> cryptically-named directories and files. How do I extract the "real" files >> from the raw volumes? I'd rather not have to rebuild my cell in order to >> accomplish this (especially since I'm not sure of how to do that). >> > > You can use "voldump" to create a dump of a volume from the /vicepa > partition without a volserver. This dump can be restored to another > volserver and you can extract your files with the fileserver from > that machine. > I think there is no way to get your original files without a > fileserver (and cell). If you run bosserver with -noauth you > should be able to skip the Kerberos setup. > The restorevol command can restore a volume dump to non-afs space. voldump + restorevol might be what you need, but setting up a temporary DBserver/fileserver might be easier. If you have dumps on tape, you can use the read_tape command to read those without an AFS server.
This is 10 years old, but might help: IBM AFS Disaster Recovery: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=961&context=SSXMUG&dc=DA400&uid=swg27004312&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct961other Jason _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
