On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stephan Wiesand <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On 2014-01-17, at 15:41, Germán Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > El ene 17, 2014 9:43 AM, "Harald Barth" <[email protected]> escribió: > > > > > > > > > > If I understood correctly, the easiest way to restore the files is > to setup > > > > another afs server and "just" overwrite the /vicepa folder with the > one I > > > > have. Is this correct? > > > > > > Yes, I think that's still correct. The easiest way to set up a AFS > > > server is probably to take a linux distro which has pre-packaged > > > binaries for AFS client and server. Debian for example. > > > > > > > I don't understand the part about the salvager deleting the data. > > > > > > I think the ownership and mode bits conain information if the file in > > > question is "active". The salvager may delete inactive data. But prior > > > to copying your old data into your new /vicepa/ you can remove the > > > salvager from BosConfig and then run the salvager by hand with > > > -nowrite which will tell you what the salvager would have done. > > > > > > > I have > > > > the recovered /vicepa folder on a ntfs partition. I'm trying to > recover > > > > again the folder but to an ext4 partition trying to preserve > ownership and > > > > modes ... > > > > > > Good if you can do that. Zip and Tar archives can be told to preserve > > > ownership as well. > > > > > > Harald. > > > > > > Ok. > > > > I was hoping there was some simple way to extract the data, which did > not involve the creation of an afs server. > > I have a perl script from 2005 that could do this - but only for pure r/w > volumes. If there's a backup or readonly clone on the same partition, it > will probably fail miserably. It's not polished, may have to be adapted to > current perl versions etc. And I think it recovered nothing but the file > content and the path, not mode/owner/ACLs... > > That would be enough for me at this moment. Setting up a server is certainly the better option and may well be easier > and faster. But if you're desperate enough, let me know. > > I think the script could be useful to play with the data that I have while I wait for other processes to finish. I would appreciate if you send it to me. Regards, Germán
