[607] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Retrieving a RW volume from an RO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Edward Lovinger)
Thu Feb 13 12:59:19 1992
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 11:15:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Edward Lovinger <dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: <Added.0dacx2D0Bi81E6mE8m@transarc.com>
"Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <CC012@cranfield.ac.uk> writes:
> It's possible to remove a RW volume, leaving it's RO version available.
> Since RW and RO volumes on the same partition occupy insignificant extra
> space, there's no point in doing so intentionally.
Indeed.
> BUT if I delete the RW version by mistake, there's no obvious way to
> restore the RW from the RO. vos addsite /vos release will only replicate
> RW->RO, not RO->RW (according to the manual, anyway).
Apropriate use of "vos dump" and "vos restore" from the RO to
the RW works. Since you still have the VLDB entry around, you just
copy the RO contents back onto the RW location to recreate the volume.
I had to do this a few months back after some RW sites on our rep
servers got nuked by accident.
dan
