Re: Splitting large volumes

Eyal Traitel wrote:

The easiest solution, that also demands minimal downtime is using ndmpcopy/rsync altogether...

This will work only if you have free volumes on the new machine...

1. Copy a baseline copy of the seperate parts of your current volume to the target volumes, using ndmpcopy/rsync/tar/whatever (ndmpcopy will be the fastest probably). This can be done while users are working, a few hours/days before the migration downtime is planned.
2. In something like a few hours before the downtime, use the utility "rsync" and/or ndmpcopy to copy incrementally

Hi,

There's a bug with incremental NDMPCopy which affects files which are now shorter than they were in the initial level 0 dump. The bug is in the restore phase. Fixed in 5.3.5

Luckily we were only migrating ~60GB and the system wasn't running 24x7 (in a recent previous existence)

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