Re: [OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

2011-01-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
I recommend a reinstall, then copy /usr/afs/etc from another server to copy the KeyFile, CellServ, etc. Jason On 01/16/2011 01:48 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: How about moving the /usr/afs directories from a known good server to the RW server and doing the same? ted On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:10 AM

Re: [OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

2011-01-16 Thread Neil Davies
I'd follow Jason's suggestion I've had to do this twice in the 8/9 years we been running AFS. In our case we would (quickly) rebuild a physical sever, get the raid attached, mount them as /vicep(x) partitions then perform the VLDB sync ritual - there may be some old addresses and reference

Re: [OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

2011-01-16 Thread Ted Creedon
How about moving the /usr/afs directories from a known good server to the RW server and doing the same? ted On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > On 01/15/2011 01:05 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: > >> my R/W server died but /vicepa and /vicepb were saved on their raid >> drives. >>

Re: [OpenAFS] resurrecting dead server

2011-01-16 Thread Jason Edgecombe
On 01/15/2011 01:05 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: my R/W server died but /vicepa and /vicepb were saved on their raid drives. this server also ran the krb5kdc... there are 2 other RO servers still OK but 2 out of 20 volumes are not up to date. both were running upclient etc the data on the RO servers