Moving Large File System

[MikeL_4]

I need to move a large file system, 450Gb and was planning on using fbackup to copy it.
It is going from one HP-UX 11.11 server to another HP-UX 11.11 server, however I do not have direct connectivity between these 2 servers. I have to copy it to an intermediate server and then frecover it to the final resting place....
I know fbackup/frecover is only for HP-UX servers but can I use the disk space on a SUN Solaris server to at least hold the data that I'm moving ?? I can NFS mount the dasd on the SUN server between the two, network wise I just cannot connect directly..

[OldSchool · Accepted solution]

should work....a file is a file is a file.

fbackup doesn't know what server the data resides on, only that it can access the file. if you have doubts, try a small test first.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The only possible gotcha would be a largefiles (> 2GiB) limit imposed somewhere along the chain. Before doing anything else, I would NFS copy a file a bit larger than 2GiB from one end to the other and if that works your fbackup/frecover should have no problems. In the worst case, if there is a 2GiB limit, you could pipe your output through split to write a series of files to your NFS mountpoint and then use cat to reassemble then and pipe to frecover.

[Hein van den Heuvel]

As per 'OldSchool'.. a fiel is a file is a file...

Just be sure to try with a 2 - 10GB sized file first to make soure you have all details right. Notably you want to make sure you have a reasonable expectation of the transfer time to be expected and perhaps see you you can best monitor progress (files sizes, disk IO rates, network acket counts...).

fwiw,
Hein.

[MikeL_4]

Thanks