I did not copy the LVM. The first pack (root, /usr, etc) was copied from a Sles9 master server.
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 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: upgrading to sles9 Don't create the LVM. You copied the existing LVM when you copied the packs. If you DDR the packs after creating a new LVM you will wipe out the new LVM and replace it with the old LVM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 -- 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
