Hello,

        But will this export (write) all data to a new set of tapes for
putting onto the new node?  I think that it does, but I am not familiar
with exporting or importing.  In the help page, it sounds like there
might just be some data for the export/import process, if this is true and
it's relatively small it'll work.  My first guess is "No" though.

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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Richard Sims wrote:

> >        We're going to move some filesystems around, basically consolidate
> >12 filesystems on 8 nodes to 12 filesystems on 2 nodes.  Can I specify
> >multiple nodenames (doesn't make sense to me) so that it understands and
> >doesn't do the incremental?
> >        Anyone have any ideas about this.  I don't have enough tapes to do
> >a export and import onto the new node (requires writing new tapes) to
> >transfer all the data.  I can't rename the multiple nodes to one node, it
> >just isn't supported.  Any ideas?
>
> Unfortunately, ADSM does not support reassigning filespaces to other nodes.
> A circumventing technique posted some time ago to the List:
>
> File space, move to another node        The 'REName FIlespace' cannot do this.
>  within same server                     You can perform it via technique:
>                                         Assume nodes A & B, and you want to
>                                         move filespace F1 from A to B...
>                                         1. rename node b b_temp
>                                         2. rename node a b
>                                         3. export node b filespace=f1
>                                            filedata=all devt=3590 ser=123456
>                                         (wait for the export to complete)
>                                         4. rename node b a
>                                         5. rename node b_temp b
>                                         6. import node b replacedefs=no
>                                            devt=3590 ser=123456
> No fun, but there it is.
>   Richard Sims, BU
>