Move san dist to another server

[Tonny Sejr Kromann]

Hi

I have a ldev/volume mountet on one server. It is viewable from the other server too. Is all I have to do to umount it, and then pvcreate on the other server? Will my data be lost so I have to restore?
OS is hpux 11.0 on L-class with XP512 and XP256.
Thanks for you time :)

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Tonny

[Domenico_5 · Accepted solution]

Hy tonny

If you do a pvcreate on the other server you will destroy your data on LVM structure.

If you don't want this, export the structure with vgexport -p -s -m vgxxx.map /dev/vgxxx
copy the vgxxx.map on the other server and import the structure.

[Tom Geudens]

Hi Tonny,
Domenico is right. I recently faced this problem myself. See post http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf43ec4c76f92d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html
for the whole discussion about using "vgexport -s" and "vgimport -s".
This will simplify your "move" significantly.

Regards,
Tom