Re: copy raw device

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 08:52:59 EST


sounds like he wants a copy not a move.....if you do a move and the
attempt fails for whatever reason, you're toast. When we do this sort
of thing we use the dd procedure i described earlier (for instance,
making a dev copy of the production database)

Coyle, Jack wrote:

>Why is it that you feel migratepv will not be sufficient for your purposes?
>From the man page for migratepv:
>
> <snip>
> ...
> The migratepv command moves allocated physical partitions and the
>data they contain from the SourcePhysicalVolume to one or more other
>physical volumes.
> ...
> <snip>
>
>Regards,
>Jack Coyle
>Rex Healthcare
>jack.coyle@rexhealth.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick YEH [mailto:rick@BULL.COM.TW]
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 2:48 AM
>To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>Subject: Re: copy raw device
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>
>If i would like to keep the orginal data, what i can do?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patrick B. O'Brien" <pobrien@DOIT.NV.GOV>
>Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
>To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 3:14 PM
>Subject: Re: copy raw device
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>>One way would be to do a, 'migratepv ssadisk fasttdisk'.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rick YEH [mailto:rick@BULL.COM.TW]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:08 PM
>> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
>> Subject: copy raw device
>>
>> Hello AIXer,
>> I am going to move the Informix database from SSA
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>storage to a new
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>> Fastt600 storage. In what command I can make an identical
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>copy of all the
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>> raw device which was allocated to the Informix database
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>for its tablespace
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>> from an SSA storage to the Fastt stroage without destoy
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>the data. Please
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>> five me your professional suggestion and the detail
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>instructions. Thanks!
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>
>> Rick
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