On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:59:44 -0400 John W Sopko Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would first shutdown the AFS db instances on the old server so one > of our other db servers would become the sync master. I was then going > to rsync the db files to the new 64 bit server from the old server and > turn on the afs db server instances. Or should I just leave the > /usr/afs/db directory empty and the new machine will sync the > databases over? It will sync by itself. It might be faster if you copy it over manually, but it shouldn't make much of a difference. > If I do a mdsum checksum on the db's I notice the lowest IP server has > a different checksum then the other 2 secondary db servers which have > the same checksum. Are the dbs portable? Thanks for any > recommendations. The dbs are portable. If you skip the first 8 bytes or so (or maybe it's just 4 bytes), they should be identical. The actual db files on disk contain a header preceding the actual database, and part of the space for the header is unused and can contain different values. Of course, that assumes the database isn't changing :) If you suspect they are problematically different, you can diff a hexdump output of the database, and see how many bytes differ and what ranges, etc. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
