Hi, we do that, with both filesystems managed by the same meta-server. On this list, people talked about doing this even with completely separate systems (moving meta data with samfsdump and manually moving tapes from one robot to the other). Just try it out with a samfsdump of a small subset to see if it works in your setup. Best, Peter
On May 21, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Matthew Powell wrote: > Can you restore one file systems meta data to another file system > and still be able to retrieve the data that was archived? We are > wanting to test doing a samfsdump of one file systems metadata and > then trying to get a samfsrestore done to a different file system? > Has anyone ever done this? Can you do this into a separate file > system named differently? Thanks. > > Matt Powell > Storage Administrator > Clemson University > office : 865-656-0589 > cell: 864-650-8237 > > _______________________________________________ > sam-qfs-discuss mailing list > sam-qfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sam-qfs-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/sam-qfs-discuss/attachments/20080521/0a0345bb/attachment.html>
