We are experiencing major problems with our F540. NetApp is working with us on it.
While trying to get us through our crisis, they have also suggested that they may temporarily provide us with an F740, complete with enough fibre-channel disks to hold the data on our F540.
We would like to know what would be the quickest way to get the data moved from one system to the other. Doing it accross our 100Mb net could take a couple of days, which is unacceptable. Could we put a scsi card in the F740, attach our F540's shelves and do volcopys? Any other suggestions? We need the downtime to be the absolute minimum.
Also, if it's fibre-channel only, how am I supposed to attach my scsi-based DLT jukebox, so I can continue to back up the replacement filer via NDMP? Is there a scsi port on an F740, just for use by a tape drive?
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
We would like to know what would be the quickest way to get the data moved from one system to the other.
Connect the drives to the 740.
Could we put a scsi card in the F740, attach our F540's shelves and do volcopys?
Yes, but at that point you can just get your data of the shelves. If you really want to do this perhaps you could pull the SCSI controllers from the 540. However, what you do depends on where you suspect the fault.
Any other suggestions? We need the downtime to be the absolute minimum.
Take the drives and the scsi controllers and put them in the 740. However, you won't be able to fix your old Filer unless the problem is in the head.
Also, if it's fibre-channel only, how am I supposed to attach my scsi-based DLT jukebox, so I can continue to back up the replacement filer via NDMP? Is there a scsi port on an F740, just for use by a tape drive?
Actually, how long would it take to get the backup from your tape? You could get the SCSI controller from the 540 if there already isn't one.
Tom
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