Hi,
There is a whitepaper that might be interest on the netapp website: "Migrating Data Between NetApp Filers" http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3018.html. Have you considered NDMPcopy?
-- johnrh
-----Original Message----- From: Kelsey Cummings [mailto:kgc@sonic.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:50 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Migrating from NetApp to new NetApp
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?
On Wed, 24 May 2000 john.harechmak@netapp.com wrote:
There is a whitepaper that might be interest on the netapp website: "Migrating Data Between NetApp Filers" http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3018.html. Have you considered NDMPcopy?
When I tried using ndmpcopy to transfer the data from my F230 to an F740, the F740 crashed. I called tech support but they were not able to resolve my problem and I ended up just using dump/restore across the network. This was about 6 months ago and I know there has been at least one release of DOT since then.
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