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Subject: Re: Migrating a file system with minimal downtime
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On 10/30/07, Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> wrote:
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> 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