On 28 aug 2008, at 14:49, Lee, Gary D. wrote:

Howard Colse was correct.  Did a db backup type=full, and restored
from it ok.

Now to get around the next difficulty.  Totally different hardware
config.

My plan was to restore the db to the new server.  However, the disk
pools will be completely different, and it looks like you can't
delete a storage pool volume that is off line.

so you'll have to empty out your diskpools first, no biggy.

One thought is to delete the disk pool from the old server, then do
the db backup.

and that is exactly what I did when I last made such a move.

Does anyone have a better way of moving 80 nodes and their data
between servers without doing the export / import thing?

I can't think of anything (except for maybe moving over the disks with
diskpools and database and log entirely to the new system).

Roughly 8 tB of data over a gigabit ethernet.
I would appreciate any solutions you may have.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

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