[OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Hi, I have to migrate volumes between a 1.2.11 OpenAFS server to a new 1.4.4 server, the two servers serves the same Cell but don't know each other, then what would be the best solution to migrate volumes from the old to the new one? I've tried to dump from the old and restore to the new and

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christof Hanke
Hi, what about vos move ? I haven't heard of any reason why this shouldn't work. HTH, Christof Gérald Macinenti wrote: Hi, I have to migrate volumes between a 1.2.11 OpenAFS server to a new 1.4.4 server, the two servers serves the same Cell but don't know each other, then what would be

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Christof Hanke a écrit : Hi, what about vos move ? I haven't heard of any reason why this shouldn't work. when I try to move (I execute the command on the new server), I've got: VLDB: no such entry which I suppose is normal as the two servers maintain different vl databases... when I execute

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to migrate volumes between a 1.2.11 OpenAFS server to a new 1.4.4 server, the two servers serves the same Cell but don't know each other, then what would be the best solution to migrate volumes from the old to the new one? I've tried to dump

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to migrate volumes between a 1.2.11 OpenAFS server to a new 1.4.4 server, the two servers serves the same Cell but don't know each other, then what would be the best solution to migrate volumes from the old to the

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, this is the best way to describe it, two differents servers with just happen to have the same cell name, my goal is to replace the old by the new one, so I kept the cell

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, this is the best way to describe it, two differents servers with just happen to have the same cell name, my goal is to replace the old by

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007 schrieb Gérald Macinenti: would it be another option to have a simple fileserver added to both administrative servers (with the same cell name??) and migrate volumes with a vos move from old to this fs then move from this fs to new? Hmm, seems you make things more

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Dirk Heinrichs a écrit : Am Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007 schrieb Gérald Macinenti: would it be another option to have a simple fileserver added to both administrative servers (with the same cell name??) and migrate volumes with a vos move from old to this fs then move from this fs to new? Hmm,

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would it be an option to simply rsync AFS partitions *.vol from the old to the new server and then copy the vldb.* files from the old to the new server ? I have not tried this, but it should work, in theory. For best results, you should bos stop the

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, two advices to do it is enough, I won't resist ;) but I would like to be able to return back to a previous state if anything goes wrong (what my complicated solution allows), then is it possible in your solution to vos copy instead of vos move ?

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Lars Schimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! another way to copy the volumes (WITH the ACLs and quota) is to vos dump them and vos restore in the other cell (if users/groups are the same). Had done that some different times here and it worked well. But PLEASE just add the second server to

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Lars Schimmer a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! another way to copy the volumes (WITH the ACLs and quota) is to vos dump them and vos restore in the other cell (if users/groups are the same). Had done that some different times here and it worked well. as I said,

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Derrick Brashear
another way to copy the volumes (WITH the ACLs and quota) is to vos dump them and vos restore in the other cell (if users/groups are the same). Had done that some different times here and it worked well. as I said, there is a problem with fs la on restored volume (it segfaults) This is

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Derrick Brashear a écrit : another way to copy the volumes (WITH the ACLs and quota) is to vos dump them and vos restore in the other cell (if users/groups are the same). Had done that some different times here and it worked well. as I said, there is a problem

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Gérald Macinenti a écrit : Lars Schimmer a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! another way to copy the volumes (WITH the ACLs and quota) is to vos dump them and vos restore in the other cell (if users/groups are the same). Had done that some different times here and it

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: server, I have another problem: the volserver on the fileserver doesn't seam to listen on any port? bos status: Instance fs, currently running normally. Auxiliary status is: file server running. ps aux: /usr/libexec/openafs/volserver is the

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Derrick J Brashear a écrit : On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: server, I have another problem: the volserver on the fileserver doesn't seam to listen on any port? bos status: Instance fs, currently running normally. Auxiliary status is: file server running. ps aux:

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: is the fileserver running? until the volserver can talk tot he fileserver it has little interest in talking to anyone else (look at the logs) FileLog: File server starting /var/openafs/sysid: doesn't exist Creating new SysID file so everything seams

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Derrick J Brashear a écrit : On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: is the fileserver running? until the volserver can talk tot he fileserver it has little interest in talking to anyone else (look at the logs) FileLog: File server starting /var/openafs/sysid: doesn't exist Creating new

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: Derrick J Brashear a écrit : On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: is the fileserver running? until the volserver can talk tot he fileserver it has little interest in talking to anyone else (look at the logs) FileLog: File server starting

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: Derrick J Brashear a écrit : And VolserLog? this file isn't create by the process... Then your volserver isn't starting... What does bos status 127.0.0.1 -noauth show

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: Derrick J Brashear a écrit : And VolserLog? this file isn't create by the process... Then your volserver isn't starting...

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Gérald Macinenti
Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Derrick J Brashear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Gérald Macinenti wrote: Derrick J Brashear a écrit : And VolserLog? this file isn't create by the process... Then

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Christof Hanke wrote: Hi, what about vos move ? I haven't heard of any reason why this shouldn't work. Well, it would if he weren't trying to not make the new fileserver be in the old cell while he was doing this. ___

Re: [OpenAFS] Cell migration

2007-07-01 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Gérald Macinenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher D. Clausen a écrit : Or did you already change things and just make this server a fileserver only in your original cell? second option, I already tried to follow your advices (sorry for being so quick ;)), so the situation is: * my good