Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-26 Thread Harald Barth
Hi Mike and Michael! You have the chance to confuse everyone if you write your emails From: Mike and sign below with Michael and the other way around. :-) ;-) MM> FYI, The 'vos remaddrs' command has been available since OpenAFS 1.6.16 and can MM> be used to remove unreferenced server entries i

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-26 Thread Michael Meffie
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:48:11 +0100 (CET) Harald Barth wrote: > > > The "vos syncserv" and/or "vos syncvldb" commands can help with this > > (but I always have to read the docs to remember which to use). > > If the volumes on the server are the real world and the VLDB is the > map to find them,

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-26 Thread Mike B. Kerber
On 26/02/2019 03:48, Harald Barth wrote: > >> The "vos syncserv" and/or "vos syncvldb" commands can help with this >> (but I always have to read the docs to remember which to use). > > If the volumes on the server are the real world and the VLDB is the > map to find them, then > > syncvldb adjus

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-25 Thread Harald Barth
> The "vos syncserv" and/or "vos syncvldb" commands can help with this > (but I always have to read the docs to remember which to use). If the volumes on the server are the real world and the VLDB is the map to find them, then syncvldb adjusts the map to match the world syncserv adjusts the rea

Re: Upgrade of server by moving drives,[OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-25 Thread Harald Barth
> We would prefer to move the array containing our vicep* partitions from > the old to the new server and bring that one up. Yes, that is possible. Nothing on the /vicep* says what server it was on, that info is only on the VLDB(s) in the DB servers. The identity of the file server is the uuid (

Re: [OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 06:20:02PM +0100, Mike B. Kerber wrote: > Hello openafs-specialists! > > We are currently upgrading our hardware and would like to circumvent the > move of the volumes from old to new servers. > > We would prefer to move the array containing our vicep* partitions from > th

[OpenAFS] Upgrade of server by moving drives

2019-02-25 Thread Mike B. Kerber
Hello openafs-specialists! We are currently upgrading our hardware and would like to circumvent the move of the volumes from old to new servers. We would prefer to move the array containing our vicep* partitions from the old to the new server and bring that one up. Downtime is not the issue here