On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:54:22PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Friday 30 October 2009 06:01:21 Israel Garcia, vous avez écrit : > > Sorry if it's OT, but we have a debian lenny with a big VG1 a some LVs > > inside and want to move all LV's from VG1 to another VG2 located in > > other server. Is it possible? > > > > I've searched the web with no success. > > > > thanks. > > You also have the option to go through a big external disk : > 1) plug the external disk in your server 1 > > 2) add the disque to VG1 > - pvcreate /dev/sdXY (the external drive, or a partition on the external > drive) > - vgextend VG1 /dev/sdXY > > 3) move the data to the external disk with pvmove (2 solutions) > - pvmove -n LV1 /dev/sdXY for each LV or > - pvmove /dev/sdAB /dev/sdXY for each PV in VG1 (if there is only one, > it's just one command comparing to solution 1)
aren't you missing a step to that the pv out of the vggroup ?
>
> 4) deactivate VG1 on server 1
> - vgchange -a n VG1 (you can delete it after, I don't think it's wise to
> delete it now)
>
> 5) unplug the external drive, and plug it to server 2
>
> 6) add the PV on the external drive to VG2 on server 2
> - vgextend VG2 /dev/sdXY (perhaps a pvscan will be needed ?)
>
> 7) Move the data to the disks of VG2
> - pvmove /dev/sdXY (no destination needed, except if you really want
> where
> to put the data)
>
> 8) remove the PV of external drive
> - vgreduce VG2 /dev/sdXY
>
> 9) you're done ! Unplug the external drive.
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