Re: Upgrading disks in Shadowset

healyzh@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Paul Sture <paul.sture.nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm going many years to slow hardware with this, but it's worth mentioning if you have slow tapes.

As I have very slow tapes this is of interest. I think I can manage about
1.5-3MB/Sec depending on how I get the drive hooked up, and which drive I
use.

If you are doing disk to disk then back again (e.g. for a reinitialization of the original disk with new parameters), you can save time by doing:

backup/image disk 1 to saveset on disk 2 as the first step.

This means that you are doing sequential writes on the backup and then sequential reads on the restore.

Am I correct that the third and final step is to do a BACKUP/IMAGE of the
saveset to disk 3? This is definitely doable in my configuration, I'd just
need to pull my Scratch drive, which is no problem at all.


Yes. I was thinking of doing the last step back to disk 1, so I'll clarify what I had in mind:

1. backup/image disk 1 to saveset on disk 2
2. dismount disk 1, init with desired parameters and remount as
/foreign
3. backup/image/noinit saveset on disk 2 to disk 1
.

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