Currently our backuppc server is a virtual server. The root partition is separate from the data store. All of its storage is on the local virtual server host. It has a 6TB partition with about 85% ut
I forgot to explain that the current VM has a 6TB logical volume. I would like to move that data to our iSCSI SAN which I have carved out a 8TB logical volume on. The problem comes when I try to migr
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:14:53 -0500
I don't think there is really a good answer to this problem. You might ask on the LVM list if you could reasonably expect to attach the iscsi volume as a new physical volume and pmove to it. I don't
Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a "new backuppc" and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our situation: When we initially ordered this server we ordered it with 3
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:01:13 -0500
The 'rsync pool/cpool, follow with BackupPC_tarPCCopy' is probably the fastest approach, but you are still going to have a long downtime (you can't let anything change during the whole operation). I'
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:35:16 -0400
Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 06/22/2012 02:37:17 PM: a we got it, I Now 8x the we sure Why can't you copy (at the block level) the VM image onto the SAN? This should be able to be
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: We just had to buy 2 backup drives and they were over $1000. This is a Dell server, not some basic desktop drive. O
a we got it, I Now 8x the we sure Why can't you copy (at the block level) the VM image onto the SAN? This should be able to be done at the *HOST* level, making whatever OS you're using inside of Bac
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:55:57 -0400
Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 06/22/2012 03:41:56 PM: is a to I have *NEVER* understood the logic of putting BackupPC into your SAN. First of all, your SAN contains your production
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:04:22 -0400
Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 06/22/2012 03:51:05 PM: No. You don't. Then your host is broken. No amount of BackupPC-manipulation is going to change that. No. You don't. Repeating i
is a to I have *NEVER* understood the logic of putting BackupPC into your SAN. First of all, your SAN contains your production data, so why do you want to store the backups there? Second of all, it
No. You don't. Then your host is broken. No amount of BackupPC-manipulation is going to change that. I understand that it isn't backuppc's place to fix that. I am just trying to get my data off th
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:49:52 -0500
Why can't the guest talk to iscsi? Or reboot the guest (or even host) with a recent ubuntu-based clonezilla-live and have it write the image copied to an NFS export from a different system that has i
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote: Very good point Les. I did not even think about the storage partition files that clonezilla uses. That may be exact
Author: Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:03:57 -0400
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 06/22/2012 04:49:52 PM: and support" backuppc" question wrote: to another tothe rsync host) on that does the current the data over Agreed in every
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:11:48 -0500
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> wrote: He did say it was government work. I think that pretty much explains the situation... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell