[342] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Merging AFS cells.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Edward Lovinger)
Wed Oct 16 18:27:21 1991
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 17:11:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Edward Lovinger <dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <8cz6ivW1408IMSc2xe@mumrik.cs.chalmers.se>
Christer Bernerus <bernerus@animal.cs.chalmers.se> writes:
> I'd like to merge two AFS cells. Could someone briefly explain the
> tricks to do it.
>
> (I have two servers for the cell test.cs.chalmers.se which I want to
> serve the cell cs.chalmers.se instead, hopefully without having to move
> lots of data)
How I would do it (foreach machine):
* shutdown the to-be moved server (bos shutdown localhost)
* copy /usr/afs/etc from a working server in the cell you want
to move it to - this will get the KeyFile, Userlist,
and ThisCell (the important things)
* make sure that the BosConfig is correct - you probably don't
want them trying to come up as database servers also.
* reboot the machine - easiest way to cleanly restart the
bosserver.
* "vos syncvldb <server-name>" once they come back up to sync
the contents into the cell
* done
This sounds right to me ... of course, you will have to play
with mountpoints to get all of the volumes back into your directory
structure somewhere useful. I'm pretty sure this is correct ...
someone check me on it. I've done things close to this, but not this
exact operation.
Dan Lovinger Computing & Communications Carnegie Mellon U.
Internet: dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu Bitnet: dl2n+%andrew.cmu.edu@carnegie
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