Rubino, If you lost a RW volume then you can recover data from the old RO copy of that RW.
You can create a new RW volume copy the contents of the old RO volume to the new RW. vos dump volume.readonly -time 0 | vos restore newvolume Then you can undo mountpoints and do some volume renaming to "restore" your volume names and mountpoints. See also: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-afs@transarc.com/msg04144.html I hope this helps. -- cheers paul http://acm.org/~mpb References: [0] "Recovery of RW volume" posting on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/info-afs@transarc.com/msg04144.html [1] "vos dump" http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Library/documentation/afs/3.6/unix/en_US/HTML/AdminRef/auarf260.htm#HDRVOS_DUMP [2] "vos restore" http://www.transarc.ibm.com/Library/documentation/afs/3.6/unix/en_US/HTML/AdminRef/auarf274.htm#HDRVOS_RESTORE [3] Rubino Geiß wrote: >>This was more or less just a test on how it's done. Any way, >>I mounted my readonly replica on another directory, and >>discovered that it's not real time replication! Ie, the files are OLD. >> > >That's what they supposed to be, without vos release XXX... > >>Did I set it up wrongly, or is this expected (to run 'vos >>release ...')? >> > >Yes, vos release is required. > > >Anyway, does anyone know a setup or trick to make a RO volume a RW >volume? > >Some time ago there was a reference to some "admin hack" or something >like that on this list, but nothing more. I'd like to regularly do vos >releases on a set of volumes and in case of disaster switch to the RO as >RW volumes... is possible or do we have to "hack" openAFS for that? -- I >know backups do the trick (of some kind of disaster recovery; and we do >daily backups), but restoring > 100GB will cause significant outage! > >_______________________________________________ >OpenAFS-info mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info