If I create an LVM after I ddr the packs, won't that wipe out whatever is on those packs ?
Alan Levy W: 718-403-8020 C: 347-401-4629 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Frazier Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: upgrading to sles9 That sounds like the safe way to do it. But why don't you DD all 29 volumes in step 3 and skip steps 1, 5, 6, and 7? You don't need to format the volume before you do the DDR copy to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I currently have a sles8 server in production with an LVM of 208 gig (29 > mod-9 in total, 28 for the LVM). > > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used > Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/dasda1 708568 403132 > 269444 60% / > > /dev/dasdc1 2365444 1457024 > 788260 65% /usr > > /dev/system/vol1 208097872 181917960 15609160 > 93% /usr/local > > > > I would like to migrate this to a sles9 server. I cannot upgrade the > server in place due to a number of > > customized installed products which may break during the update. Since > this is a production server, I > > cannot afford an outage (it gets about 1 million hits per day). > > > > I would like to create a new sles9 server and then do a conversion but > am not sure about the best > > way of accomplishing this. Is the following feasible? > > > > 1. Get 29 new mod-9 packs and cp format them > > 2. Create a new userid with 29 packs in the VM directory. > > 3. Clone an exising sles9 server (ddr existing server to first new pack) > > 4. Bring up server & configure it (different IP address than production, > different OSA addr, etc) > > 5. Activate the 28 new packs with yast. > > 6. Create lvm with the 28 packs > > 7. Shut down the new server and DDR the production 28 packs to the new > server. > > 8. Install software needed for the new server. > > 9. Bring up server and test > > 10. Shut down production server & change ip & osa addresses of new > server > > 11. Bring up new server as the new production server. > > > > Does anyone have other suggestions or a better way of doing this ? > > > > TIA > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Stephen Frazier Information Technology Unit Oklahoma Department of Corrections 3400 Martin Luther King Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 Tel.: (405) 425-2549 Fax: (405) 425-2554 Pager: (405) 690-1828 email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
