Thanks to:
Bennet Fauber [bfauber_at_ucdavis.edu]
Corinne Haesaerts [Corinne.Haesaerts_at_compaq.com]
It looks like there are two methods to do this:
1) Recreate the symbolic links to the device names in my /etc/fdms/{domain}
directory to point to the new device names
or
2) Run advscan -r on the new host once I connect the drives to that new
host.
Thanks for the replies!
Blake Roberts
UNIX Systems Administrator
HBS International
425.455.2652 x507
800.290.8982 x507
blarob_at_hbsi.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blake Roberts
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 12:44 PM
> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl. gov (E-mail)
> Subject: AdvFS Filesystem question
>
> Greetings all:
>
> I have a fairly basic AdvFS question for all of you AdvFS experts. I am
> looking doing a data migration from one EMC disk array to another one.
> Because of various things, we are not going to use EMC's data migration
> utilities. What I want to do is format some filesystems on an temporary
> host, copy the data from one system to another, disconnect the temporary
> host, and connect the other system up to the same drives.
>
> Because I am switching hosts, I am guaranteed that my device names will
> change. There is no way that I can match SCSI busses and ID's between the
> two servers. I know that I can get away with this type of data transfer
> on UFS, but I would like to format these disks AdvFS instead. Will I be
> able to access my data once I switch from the temporary system to the
> system I want the data on?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Blake Roberts
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> HBS International
> 425.455.2652 x507
> 800.290.8982 x507
> blarob_at_hbsi.com
>
Received on Mon Dec 06 1999 - 21:27:23 NZDT