In data martedì 18 ottobre 2011 10:43:07, Andrew Deason ha scritto: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:13:32 +0200 > > ProbaNet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > We have an old vice partition (/vicepc) on an old backup > > > > hard-disk with data actually not used. Is there a way to access > > that data? We would like to bring its volumes online, if > > possible. Thank you! > > How old is it? Does it contain a directory called AFSIDat? Do you know > what platform the fileserver was that last used the partition?
First of all, thanks a lot for your help! :) Not so old, around 1 year. It's an ext3 filesystem used on a Debian Lenny, with openafs v 1.4.?? > If there is an AFSIDat directory on it, Yes that dir is there! > you can probably just mount the > partition on any namei fileserver, and you should be able to get at the > data. The most convenient way may be to 'vos dump' all of the volumes on > it (you can get a list of volumes via 'vos listvol'), and then 'vos > restore' the volume dumps somewhere else. Fantastic!! Thank you very much, we didn't thought it was that simple! See you and thanks again!! Stefano Fabio
