On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:05:33 +0000 > Germán Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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? > > There is at least one other way to extract the data, without needing to > set up a server. You can use the 'voldump' utility to construct a volume > dump from the /vicepa data, and you can use afsdump_extract to convert > the volume dump to a tree of actual files. You'll still probably need a > unixy machine for this, though. > > 'voldump' is a part of openafs, and you should get it with the openafs > packages for your platform. See > <http://docs.openafs.org/Reference/8/voldump.html> > > 'afsdump_extract' is part of "dumpscan". You can either use the copy of > dumpscan that's in the OpenAFS tree, or you can get it from here: > <http://grand.central.org/dl/software/dumpscan/>, or there's also a tree > with a few fixes that have been collected here: > <https://github.com/openafs-contrib/cmu-dumpscan/tree/fixes> > > Excelent news. I will try to play with this as soon as get back to work with the machines. Thank you. Germán
