Thanks to all who replied ;
Generally accepted that it SHOULD work but could be issues around the
volume of data - best to have the motor in the car running just in case !!
I think I'll not risk the career and go for the Vdump piped out to a
vrestore option
> All,
>
> Rather than a specific technical question I just want to suggest an idea
> for data migration that I'm thinking of using and get your views.
>
> Currently we have about 1TB of data on a V5.1 GS140 spread over 28
> filedomains averaging from 18gb to 90gb in size. This is an Oracle system
> and I'm migrating to an EMC SAN architecture - down time is difficult to
> get on this system and rather than take the outage to vdump and then
> restore the data I was thinking I could add the new diskspace into each
> domain (will be equivalent size or bigger) and then "rmvol" the old disk
> thus migrating all the data to the new disk. Any ideas ?
Shane Larkin
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Received on Mon Jul 08 2002 - 17:17:00 NZST