Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:45:22 -0700 From: "Doug Clements" <dclements@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating a file system with minimal downtime Message-ID: <54da514e0710301545h72a0b338x7d436250fadd104b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A1834@royal64.emp.zapto.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A1834@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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On 10/30/07, Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> wrote: > > > I want to migrate a file system containing multiple jails from a small > drive to a large (RAID-1) array. I want to do this with minimal > downtime. > I did a migration like this, but instead of dump, I used rdist. Take an initial snapshot (live) with rdist, then when you're ready to do the final copy, the offline rdist will run much more quickly, resulting in less downtime. Replace rdist with rsync if you like. --Doug
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