8 May
2018
8 May
'18
1:13 a.m.
Hi people,
Background: we have 20 odd volumes for fileshares. We limit the size of the volumes to 10T. When a volume gets near full, we need to shuffle shares to new volumes or volumes with plenty of space.
Does anybody have a magical solution for moving fileshares between volumes? With minimal but not necessarily zero downtime?
Obvious solutions are:
1) Down share, copy share to new volume, up share 2) Down share, clone volume, up share on new volume, split volume, cleanup mess.
I was wondering if anybody has seen a system to proxy the share and move it in the background. I have seen this work with NFS shares but not with CIFS.
Any magicians out there?
Regards, pdg