Let's see. If the two servers are in the same cell the vos restore will fail -- can't have 2 instances of a RW volume, and the example you give would leave homestaff.cowboy as a RW on two different servers.
If the two servers are in different cells then you want to get admin tokens for both cells and use "vos dump .... | vos restore .... -cell <othercell>" If you want to replicate the volume within a given cell use "vos addsite " "vos release" If you want to replicate the volume within a given cell but want default access to be to the RW volume, create a RW mount point (fs mkm .... -rw). Not sure what you're after. Probably a case I didn't cover :) Kim ================================= Kim (Dexter) Kimball CCRE, Inc. kim<dot>kimball<at>jpl.nasa.gov dhk<at>ccre.com -----Original Message----- From: Ron Croonenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] restoring volumes Ahh...ok... Well let me explain what I am trying to do, at least it's a plan I have. - I want to dump a volume with vos on the old server, let's say "homestaff.cowboy" - move the dumpfile to the new server - restore the dumpfile with vos on the new server to a volume called homestaff.cowboy So maybe I need a bit different approach ? Ron >>> "Dexter 'Kim' Kimball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/05/05 1:02 PM >>> Ron, Specify a different value after "-name" The volume will be restored to the specified server and partition -- as a read write volume. The ".backup" volume name extension won't work (it's reserved) and is causing your "restore name" to exceed the 22 char limit. If you want to restore over the existing RW volume put it on the same server and partition, use the same name, and specify -overwrite. Otherwise give it a new name (homestaff.cowboy.R e.g.), mount it, fix the existing volume ... etc. Kim ================================= Kim (Dexter) Kimball CCRE, Inc. kim<dot>kimball<at>jpl.nasa.gov dhk<at>ccre.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Croonenberg Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 11:28 AM To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: [OpenAFS] restoring volumes Hello, I dumped a volume on an old afs server and try to restore it on the new server. This is what I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vicepb]# vos restore -server afs-1.csc.depauw.edu -partition /vicepa -name homestaff.cowboy.backup -file /vicepb/homestaff.cowboy.backup -cell afs-1.csc.depauw.edu vos: the name of the volume homestaff.cowboy.backup exceeds the size limit Does vos restore create the volume ? I didn't see the volume homestaff.cowboy.backup. There is a volume called homestaff.cowboy on the new server though. Ron _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info