Hi, I want to upgrade the backuppc data space of one of my backuppc server. /var/lib/backuppc (reiserfs) is at the moment a plain lvm (1TB, 4x250GB, 740GB used) and I want to update to raid5/lvm (1,5TB, 4x500GB).
I did upgrade an other server which had no lvm volume a feew weeks ago. This was easy, I just copied the reiserfs partition to the new system with dd an netcat and resized/grow the partition afterwards. What is the best way to do this with lvm? I have attached 2 external USB disks (500GB+ 300GB = 800GB with lvm) as a temp. storage for the old data, because the 4 on-board SATA ports are all used by the old backuppc data. I'm not sure if I can just dd the old lvm volume to one big file on the USB disk, replace the disks, dd the file back to the lvm volume and resize the reiserfs fs? dd if=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 bs=8192 of=backuppc.dump ..replace disks, create new lvm volume... dd if=backuppc.dump of=/dev/mapper/bigger-lvm-volume bs=8192 I think the dd data includes information about the lvm volume/logical groups. I guess A lvm snapshot will not help much. Any ideas? Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
