Migrating EMC 8730 to DMX

[Ahmed_58]

Hi,
We are planning to migrate our storage from EMC 8730 to DMX, is any one gone through this experience?
to cut long story to short; I need your experience for the best way copy my Filssystems to new disks, with exactley the same permissions, directories/files time stamp etc.
PS: we also use Servicegarde clustering with this machine.

Best regards;
Ahmed

PS:

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Ahmed,

Some of the disk arrays provide business or data copy services. I generally will either do a backup to tape and restore to the new logical volume after its created and working, or copy from logical volume to logical volume.

Sometimes the mv command works well.

There are a dozen different ways to get this done correctly.

For SG, you need to have multiple nodes able to mount and activate a LUN. Your SAN setup must take this into account and make sure the scsi id of the connecting systems is not the same.

SEP

[Ahmed_58]

Shalom Steven,

Thanks for the replay , The enginer prefer us to do soft copy, I was planning to use cpio but i noticed two things to concider, 1- the date/time stamp will be changed. 2- the max GB files can copy is 2GB.

Ahmed