In data martedì 18 ottobre 2011 11:44:30, Marcus Watts ha scritto: > > 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! > Sure, 2 choices > > 1/ attach the drive to a machine, mount as /vicepX, and > bring that machine up as a new fileserver. (X can be a, b ...) > > This is useful if the volumes, drive & filesystem are compatible > with your existing server infrastructure. (in particular, > don't duplicate existing volume ids.)
Thanks a lot for your reply! Yes it is and I think we are OK with the ids, but I'm not 100% sure! :) > 2/ attach the drive to a temporary machine, mount it anywhere, > and use "voldump" to make vos dumps of all the volumes on > the drive. then use "vos restore" to export those volumes > to an existing fileserver. That sounds a bit safer, I think we'll go that way! > This is useful if you don't trust the drive, or the drive or > filesystem are inconvenient or incompatible to use with your > server infrastructure, or you have existing space and simply don't > want or need another fileserver. Thank you very much, these are precious informations! See you!! Stefano Fabio
