Hey everyone: Sorry for the delay in getting this summary out..., been a horribly busy couple of weeks. THANKS for the tons of responses y'all sent..., here's basically the options I got: --- rsync: Offers compression over the network, you can do it as a 'one big sync during a maintenance window and update incrementally via cronjobs' NFS mount/cp: no extra programs needed..., just nfsmount the new RAID and copy the data over...., rough guesses for copy time were about an hour for 20GB. The most common method was: 'tar/compress/copyormove/uncompress/untar' dd over network: 'dd if=/dev/rdsk/cXtXdXsX bs= YYk| rsh yourmachine dd of=/dev/rdsk/cXtXdXsX' where YY should be the MTU of your network(k was mentioned for Kilobyte...) ufsdump over network: ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s7 | rsh yourmachine '(cd /home; ufsrestore rf -)' tar/ssh over network: cd /LocalParentDir, ssh -x OldHost "cd /RemoteParentDir ; tar -cf - DataDir" | tar -xpvf - directly connect new RAID to new old system/old raid: then just cp ftp: only problem is permissions :\ --- Right now the rsync idea is lookin' pretty good. I still have to get the RAID up and the server up to production level, so it will still be a couple of weeks before I try this. I'll let y'all know what happens :) Thanks for everyone's help! Y'all are the best!! Have a great day!!! ------------------------------------- Giovanni Navarrette USLink Internet Systems Administrator e-Mail: gio@uslink.net _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu May 16 09:53:17 2002
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