From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 15:09:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB1516A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C94D43F85 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:09:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E182BD35 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:09:22 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6BAA7511FD; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:39:20 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:39:20 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Matt Gostick Message-ID: <20031203230920.GF77051@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1070488445.33043.21.camel@elbow.virtualservice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qp4W5+cUSnZs0RIF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1070488445.33043.21.camel@elbow.virtualservice.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving vinum disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:09:26 -0000 --qp4W5+cUSnZs0RIF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 3 December 2003 at 16:54:05 -0500, Matt Gostick wrote: > I have a concatenated 2 drives together to make 1 large disk using > vinum. Did this last year or something like that and haven't touched it > since... > > I wish to move my vinum disks to another computer, but I really don't > want to lose any information. So I want to ask from someone who has > done this, instead of just trusting myself to read the manpage > correctly. Don't get me wrong, I have read the manpage, but if I lose > this data I will kick myself, hard. Unfortunately I don't have enough > storage space anywhere else to do a full backup... > > my vinum config is this: > > drive d1 device /dev/ad2s1e > drive d2 device /dev/ad3s1e > volume tank > plex org concat > sd length 0 drive d1 > sd length 0 drive d2 This isn't important. > To complicate matters, I wish to add another drive, but from what I > understand I cannot add another drive without reformatting all of > them, correct? Incorrect. It's always better to make a backup, and there's always the danger that something will go wrong when you rebuild hardware, but basically this is what you need to do: 1. Put the disks in the system, anywhere. 2. Start the system. 3. Start Vinum. Your data should be found automatically. It's a good idea to do an fsck -n on the data to make sure it's OK. Make sure you use the -n option; if you do find a way to confuse Vinum, it will be very confused, and you don't want to write anything back to the volume until you're sure Vinum knows what it's doing. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --qp4W5+cUSnZs0RIF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/zm0gIubykFB6QiMRAmvcAJ0Se7QUEFqB0y0LlsjCZc67m0Dg2ACgrUOx S7/IWClHwLrfmrofAz95EXs= =m5uq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qp4W5+cUSnZs0RIF--