Also NFS will work too.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Fazil Saiyed <Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT 
com>wrote:

> Hi,
> I am not a solaris or Linux guy, but curious if NFS based volume is used
> to copy the data between Solaris and linux would that work  to remove the
> incompatible file systems, i.e ext3 vs ufs ?
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Dag Nygren <dag AT NEWTECH DOT FI>
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> On Wednesday 14 January 2009, Mesut Mert wrote:
> > Hi Keith,
> >
> > If your nsr is located on EMC storage, simply you can mount your BCV
> copy
> > to the RHEL server to avoid the long outage. We did that and achived to
> > transfer 200 GB index database to the target server within 10 minutes
> SAN
> > operation. Hope you have similar facilities.
> >
> > Moreover your case is not really different platform. There are some
> > considerations about licensing, but not much about filesystem. We did
> > similar migration from Windows to Unix successfully. At that time
> migrating
> > media database was little bit tricky, not index. Simply we
> > exported&imported media database from windows old backup server to
> solaris
> > new backup server.
>
>
> It still is trickier if the you are migrating between machines with
> different
> "endian-ness" as from SPARC -> x86. Very much suggest you do it by
> save/restore of the bootstrap. The indexes are saved in XDR format and
> should
> be OK with just a copy.
>
> Sorry for messing up the (un)logical order in this Q&A, but I hate
> top-posting
> and couldn't make myself do it this time either ;-)
>
> Best
> Dag
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