Previously, Tom wrote:
Better off dumping to tape and restoring to a shelf of empty 9GB's.
Or better yet, using vol copy.
Tom
Except that it sounded from his description that he doesn't have a shelf to put the 9GB drives in...
Previously, Jason wrote:
I _would_ dump, then replace all the disks, but we can't buy pre-canistered 9GB SCSI disks anymore. So we're (on the advice of our sales rep) replacing the disks in the canisters ourselves. This is a laborious process, and I don't want to add to the downtime between dump and restore by trying to do it offline, so we're trying to do it one by one while the filer is online.
Are we crazy?
Okay. Bottom line: if you put your 9GB drives in as hot spares and fail over one at a time, you will end up with a shelf of 9GB drives that have ALL been marked as 4GB capacity. You will be right back where you started for all your trouble. If you don't have a separate shelf for the 9GB's (or can't borrow one from NetApp ?) you'll have to go to tape.