Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Kameleon
I forgot to explain that the current VM has a 6TB logical volume. I would like to move that data to our iSCSI SAN which I have carved out a 8TB logical volume on. The problem comes when I try to migrate the lv via dd or other means as the host system takes a dump. Does it sound like the only

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to explain that the current VM has a 6TB logical volume. I would like to move that data to our iSCSI SAN which I have carved out a 8TB logical volume on. The problem comes when I try to migrate the lv via dd or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Kameleon
Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a new backuppc and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our situation: When we initially ordered this server we ordered it with 32GB ram, dual quad-core xeon's, and 8x 2TB drives. We had to pass it off as a backup server to get

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a new backuppc and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our situation: When we initially ordered this server we ordered it with 32GB ram, dual quad-core

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote on 06/22/2012 02:37:17 PM: Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a new backuppc and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our situation: When we initially ordered this server we ordered it with 32GB ram, dual quad-core

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Kameleon
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a new backuppc and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our situation: When we

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Kameleon
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.comwrote: Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote on 06/22/2012 02:37:17 PM: Thanks for the reply Les. Unfortunately setting up a new backuppc and leaving the old is not an option in our case. Here is our situation: When

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote on 06/22/2012 03:41:56 PM: We just had to buy 2 backup drives and they were over $1000. This is a Dell server, not some basic desktop drive. Otherwise I woudl have to fully agree with you and say we need to just buy new drives. We also are in a budgetary

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote on 06/22/2012 03:51:05 PM: Thanks for that Tim. The host OS is CentOS, the backuppc OS is ubuntu. The problem lies in the host OS's support, or broken support, for the iscsi offload function. No. You don't. I have tried moving the data with dd and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Kameleon
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.comwrote: Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote on 06/22/2012 03:41:56 PM: We just had to buy 2 backup drives and they were over $1000. This is a Dell server, not some basic desktop drive. Otherwise I woudl have to fully

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Kameleon kameleo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes the host can talk just about any other way besides iSCSI to another host. I never said it couldn't. Hence why I was going to resort to the rsync method. Why can't the guest talk to iscsi? Or reboot the guest (or even

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote on 06/22/2012 04:49:52 PM: From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com To: General list for user discussion, questions and support backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Date: 06/22/2012 04:51 PM Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Timothy J Massey tmas...@obscorp.com wrote: You are needlessly making this more complex than it needs to be. He did say it was government work. I think that pretty much explains the situation... -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

[BackupPC-users] Yet another moving backuppc question

2012-06-21 Thread Kameleon
Currently our backuppc server is a virtual server. The root partition is separate from the data store. All of its storage is on the local virtual server host. It has a 6TB partition with about 85% utilization. I am wanting to move the data to our iscsi SAN. Every time we have tried moving the lvm