there is a snapmirror migrate command that does all of this including nfs handles but to the best of my knowledge the target volume has to be a different name so in the end your vol1 becomes vol2 on the new aggregate.

this causes issues in environments that have alot of fstab entries and such that need to be updated after this change.

-- Daniel Leeds Senior Systems Administrator Edmunds.com

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of John Clear Sent: Mon 6/19/2006 4:06 PM To: Fox, Adam; Carl Howell; Greg Wilson Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: moving a flex vol to a new aggr ?

What I'd like to see is a way to move a live volume between aggregates. This would be especially useful on my R200s, since the aggregates and volumes are quite large. Ideally, something like 'vol move volname aggr0 aggr1' would move the volume without any interruptions on the client side.

My understanding is that vol copy takes a snapshot, and then transfers that, which means any changes that occur after the copy is started are not transferred. The only way around that is to make sure the volume isn't mounted/accessed, which is often an unacceptable amount of down time.

Between snapmirror and vol clone/copy, the code to do this appears to be mostly there already. The only piece missing is doing the live cutover between the old volume and new volume.

John

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Fox, Adam Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:43 AM To: Carl Howell; Greg Wilson Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: moving a flex vol to a new aggr ?

Perhaps the toaster community could better define what you want from a proposed vol move command that you aren't getting currently from vol copy?

-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Carl Howell [mailto:chowell@uwf.edu] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:35 AM To: Greg Wilson Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: moving a flex vol to a new aggr ?

I would like to see a move operation added to the vol command. Does anyone know if this will ever be available?

Thanks,

- Carl

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Greg Wilson Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:23 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: moving a flex vol to a new aggr ?

hey all

i need to move a flex vol from one aggregate to another aggregate on the same filer

is there a really simple command like

vol move <volname> aggr1 aggr2

if not what would be the easiest way to move the flex vol to a new aggregate?

vol copy ?

thanks

gw