Kelsey,

Recently i migrated data (over 110GB) from F520 to F760. With a gig card insatlled in both the systems, we acheived 35GB per hour by using vol copy command. I am not sure about F230 taking a gig card.

Alternately, you could use cpio for data transfer from any unix host. Its very efficient. I am acheiving 7GB per hour on regular network.

Cheers

Sateesh National Semiconductors

X-envelope-info: kgc@sonic.net Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:50:25 -0700 From: Kelsey Cummings kgc@sonic.net X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Migrating from NetApp to new NetApp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I've got a f230 with 4 shelves of 4GB disks and its replacement, an f740. I talked to netapp support and they recommended that the best method to move the data from the f230 to the f740 would be to tapes with dump and restore. I can't believe that there isn't a more efficient way to do this. We are an ISP and all mail/ftp/http is served off of the netapp, any downtime will be painfull so we'd like to minimize it as best we can.

What choices to migrate the data do we have? We've considered tar/cpio over nfs but that's going to take some time even if we migrate one service at a time. dump/restore seems clumsy. and plain ole 'cp' would take forever. Apparently there are issues with volcopy going from SCSI to FCAL, is that true?

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