Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-18 Thread Germán Ferrari
El ene 18, 2014 3:04 AM, Jason Edgecombe ja...@rampaginggeek.com escribió: On 01/17/2014 12:40 PM, Germán Ferrari wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: On 2014-01-17, at 15:41, Germán Ferrari german.ferr...@gmail.com wrote: El ene 17, 2014

[OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Germán Ferrari
Hello. I have to recover the data of an afs server for which I have a recovered /vicepa folder I have read this thread: Recovering filenames from namei fileserver's /vicepa tree https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2005-June/018313.html If I understood correctly, the easiest way to

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Harald Barth
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

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Germán Ferrari
El ene 17, 2014 9:43 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se 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

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 11:05 +, Germán Ferrari wrote: I don't understand the part about the salvager deleting the data. I have the recovered /vicepa folder on a ntfs partition. I'm trying to Last I checked, we don't have a working server for Windows... how did the server partition end up

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Germán Ferrari
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Brandon Allbery ballb...@sinenomine.netwrote: On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 11:05 +, Germán Ferrari wrote: I don't understand the part about the salvager deleting the data. I have the recovered /vicepa folder on a ntfs partition. I'm trying to Last I checked,

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On 2014-01-17, at 15:41, Germán Ferrari german.ferr...@gmail.com wrote: El ene 17, 2014 9:43 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se 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

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Coy Hile
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

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On 2014-01-17, at 16:43, Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com wrote: 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

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Germán Ferrari
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.dewrote: On 2014-01-17, at 15:41, Germán Ferrari german.ferr...@gmail.com wrote: El ene 17, 2014 9:43 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se escribió: If I understood correctly, the easiest way to restore the files is to

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 16:52 +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On 2014-01-17, at 16:43, Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com wrote: 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

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Jan 17, 2014, at 19:35 , Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 16:52 +0100, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On 2014-01-17, at 16:43, Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com wrote: I have a perl script from 2005 that could do this - but only for pure r/w volumes. If there's a backup or

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/17/2014 12:40 PM, Germán Ferrari wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.dewrote: On 2014-01-17, at 15:41, Germán Ferrari german.ferr...@gmail.com wrote: El ene 17, 2014 9:43 AM, Harald Barth h...@kth.se escribió: If I understood correctly, the