Snapmirror is a good choice.
-Blake
On 4/26/07, Suresh Rajagopalan SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com wrote:
I need to migrate a 1.4Tb lun from one filer to another with minimal downtime (< 30 mins). So clearly some copying of data has to be done prior to the actual move.
Would snapmirror or flexclone be the most appropriate for this? I'm not sure how I would get a consistent copy of the lun over to the other filer. This is not a database, the lun contains flat files on NTFS.
Thanks
Suresh
02 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Data migration
I need to migrate a 1.4Tb lun from one filer to another with minimal downtime (< 30 mins). So clearly some copying of data has to be done prior to the actual move. =20
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Would snapmirror or flexclone be the most appropriate for this? I'm not sure how I would get a consistent copy of the lun over to the other filer. This is not a database, the lun contains flat files on NTFS.
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Thanks
Suresh
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