Hmmm, a little research in the archives leads me to believe that the --sparse option is required on the tar "create" command line.
Would this be correct? BTW, this MDT is running 1.6.7.1 Thanks, _________________________________________ Ron Jerome Programmer/Analyst National Research Council Canada M-2, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Government of Canada Phone: 613-993-5346 FAX: 613-941-1571 _________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:lustre-discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian J. Murrell > Sent: May 21, 2009 2:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] MDT backup/restore > > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:39 -0400, Jerome, Ron wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Ron, > > > I attempting to move my MDT to a new server and I'm seeing strange > > behavior when trying to restore the MDT tar file taken from the > original > > disk to the new one. Basically, the existing MDT data appears to use > > about 2.5G, however when I restore the tar file on the new server it > > completely fills a 120G partition and the restoration fails with out > of > > disk space errors?? > > There has been a lot of discussion on this list about backing up the > MDT > for relocation. Please review the archives. IIRC, there was even > somebody reporting this exact issue. > > b. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
