Re: Moving Volume Groups/File Systems between two servers

From: yls177 (yls177_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: 25 Apr 2004 03:34:07 -0700

"Andreas Schulze" <b79xan@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<c67lvt$6mq1@news-1.bank.dresdner.net>...
> "Krishna" <kris_ckc@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > "Andreas Schulze" <b79xan@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> > > "Krishna" <kris_ckc@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > > > Hello All
> > > >
> > > > We are buying a new pSeries Server.
> > > >
> > > > We are planning to move entire data from old server to the new server.
> > > >
> > > > What is the best way and can someone let me know the detailed
> procedure
> for this.
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards
> > > > Krishna
> > >
> > > Hallo Krishna,
> > >
> > > in case you move whole volume groups you might just import them (after
> > > attaching them physically to the new server of course).
> > > man importvg
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Andreas
> >
> >
> > Hello Andreas
> >
> > We are not removing the old Storage and connecting it to new server.
> > We want to take a backup and restore the same in the new server with
> > new storage.
> >
> > Regards
> > Krishna
>
> Hallo Krishna
>
> I see. So if you want to use some media for data transfer savevg command
> might be your first choice. If you want to transfer data through the network
> you might just use tar or backup/restore (when transfering DB data).
> Commands from the target host will be sth like:
> # cd <target directory>
> # rsh <source host> "cd /datadirectory ; tar cBf - *" | tar -xvBf -
> Before transfering data you could take that opportunity of building the new
> volume groups to make sure that you get the optimal disk layout.
>
> HTH
> Andreas

how about rcp?

also, if u had to move the disks from server 1 to server 2 , wont it
be better if your disks are already in SAN, instead of locally?

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