From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 18:40:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496DE37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9706D6ACE7; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:10:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 11:10:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ryan Dooley Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating a vinum configuration Message-ID: <20010901111023.H78697@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <44D2ED0AC0121146BF01366481060EBE01917F59@umc-mail02.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <44D2ED0AC0121146BF01366481060EBE01917F59@umc-mail02.missouri.edu>; from dooleyr@missouri.edu on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500 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: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 31 August 2001 at 8:54:29 -0500, Ryan Dooley wrote: > Hey All, > > Please excuse the newbieness > > In the near future I'm intending on replacing one of our fbsd servers with > newer hardware. The current server has a vinum configuration I need to > migrate to the new machine. > > I've dumped the configuration file with a "vinum printconfig > /root/vinum.config.current". > > My question is, on the new machine, how do I recreate the vinum instance (a > simple: "vinum create /root/vinum.config.current" ?) > > My goal is not to have to rebuild (i.e., reformat that logical drive) so I'm > feeling a bit paranoid having never done this before (and I don't have the > hardware to experiment on with :-( I don't understand the question. What are you doing which would require reconfiguration? I certainly can't see any reason to format. Are you using new drives? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message