a way to migrate data to a new system

[nomad1945]

Hello:

What would be the best way to migrate a large amount of data from several aix systems to NEW systems located at a new building. since some of the hardware is going to be differnt i dont beleive migrating the vgs can work, was wandering if a syn or something can be done on line, ?
thanks

 

[mrn]

How much data?

savevg / restvg

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[nomad1945]

Well, i am told it terabytes of data, that they need to try and keep in sync as much as possible, i thought of the savevg, but this could take a while as well as a while to restore back.

 

[mrn]

They want to keep the systems in sync!

You could always build a cluster or use gpfs.

Also take a look at backsnap / snapshot commands

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."

http://www.airport-parking-site.co.uk/

 

[hirschaj]

Do you have SAN connectivity? EMC SRDF is great for syncing data across relatively short distances.

Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

what kind of storage are the AIX boxes attached to?

rgds,

R.

 

[BobMCT]

I recently did just this. With both systems connected to our LAN (100BaseT) and alive I used "rsync" starting at a specific directory and it synchronized recursively. It ran during the night and in the AM the machines were duplicates...

See "man rsync" (and it wasn't that difficult at all).

Bob

 

[comtec17]

Are you using any Centralized Storage such as a SAN or is all of your data on monolithic storage such as Direct Attached Storage?