Moving Volumes Between Disk Groups

[Michael_Warnock]

From my initial reading it looks like the only way to do this:

"Moving volume1 on ServerA to Volumex on ServerB"

is to use a Licensed Feature called FlashSnap.

Is this true?

The volumes are VxFS Filesystems and VxVM

raw volumes

Thank you

[Manfred_Ratzke]

I understand you mean moving volumes from server A to server B ?

Are you then using the same disk on the server B as beofre on server A ?

Then have a look to vxdeport which deports all information from the volume to the disk.

IF so this could it be:

take care that you have the correct vxdg deport group!!! 

umount -a 

umount -f -a  

vxvol -g datadg stopall 

vxdg deport datadg 

on new server

vxdg import {diskgroups} if neccessary (vx is doing automaticall 

vxdg import <dg, datadg f.i.>  

if issues then do vxdg -f import datadg  

all volumes should be there, check it

vxprint -th

vxvol -g <dg, f.i. datadg> startall 

vxvol -g datadg startall starts all volumes because they are in DISABLED after import after that vxprint -th shows all ENABLED  don't forget to mkdir required mountpoints for vfstab

Message Edited by Manfred Ratzke on 02-13-2009 06:52 AM