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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2070.0. "Moving a Whole System" by KERNEL::COOPER (Suzanne Cooper UK Customer Support (833)3502) Tue Jan 12 1993 15:35

    A customer is replacing his whole system with a larger processor with
    larger disks.  He has backed up all his disk to the new devices. 
    Evertything looks ok apart from Partition.dat which has imbeded for
    each record a physical device specification (i.e. the created_iuid
    field not the directory field).  
    
    How do I get round the problem,  Is the some quick way i.e. write
    change ******, or am I stuck with "blow partition.dat away" and start
    again (reseed each user and then add all the aditional drawers that the
    users have created under 3.0).
    
    Thanks in advance 
    Suzanne
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2070.1A slightly educated guessSCOTTC::MARSHALLIt's raining againTue Jan 12 1993 16:4114
    Interim reply until an expert arrives...
    
    I thought the iuid field(s) were "temporary" for caching purposes.
    
    IE: their values will be used to save time, but if they are found to be
    invalid, the FCS (or whatever) will go away and work out the correct
    value, store that in the PARTITION and then use it.
    
    So you don't need to worry; they will be automatically updated as and
    when they are used.
    
    I think.
    
    Scott
2070.3IOSG people beat me again, they're getting good :-)CHRLIE::HUSTONTue Jan 12 1993 18:5813
    
    Scott is correct, over time they will be corrected on the fly.
    
    Another option if you are ambitious is to get ahold of the reference
    manual for the FCS, and write your own little tool to fix them up.
    It would be very simple. Call OafcSetPartition, tell it to work on
    all drawers and set the function code to fix IUID's et voilla, all set.
    
    I also believe that one of the periodic FC maintenance tools will
    fix them up, not sure on this though.
    
    --Bob
2070.5KERNEL::COOPERSuzanne Cooper UK Customer Support (833)3502Wed Jan 20 1993 14:2112
    Well,  it wasn't that simple after all.  When the users try and use
    there accounts after the move then they get the error,
    
    %oa-w-cab_dwrfail, error opening drawer file docdb
    -rms-f-dev, error in device name or inappropriate decvice type for
    operation
    
    so it doesn't look like the iuid field doesn't get updated at all !  
    So we've fixed the main drawers by reseeding the users, but any
    additional drawers like like by hand.
    
    Suzanne