>>>>> "sjt" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen_at_xemacs.org> writes:

    sjt> I was able to recover what matters from the server, and after
    sjt> repeated cycles of volutil makev*db; volutil updatedb I'm
    sjt> running again.

    sjt> Moral: keep fresh backups of /vice/db/VRList and
    sjt> /vice/vol/BigVolumeList.

Also, "norton LOG DATA ${datasize}" is your friend, especially the
"list volumes" and "show volume" subcommand; they allow you to get the
volume group IDs synched to the (server's) volume IDs.

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