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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: "Meij, Henk" <hmeij@wesleyan.edu>, "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: clone of filesystem across network preserving ionodes
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:39:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5457E813.6030606@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8688BD11DAC0574AA90295127E9E9F4AC047F1CA@exchangewes8.wesad.wesleyan.edu>

On 11/3/14 2:35 PM, Meij, Henk wrote:
> What is the best practice way to get the contents from server1 to
> server2 identical disk array partitions and preserve the ionode
> information using xfs tools or non-xfs tools?

Just FWIW: inode, not ionode.  :)

> xfsdump/xfsrestore appear to not preserve this or I can not find the
> obvious setting.

> xfs_copy would, per documentation, but can I get from server1 to
> server2?

xfs_copy makes an identical image, yes.

You could xfs_copy from disk to a file on server1, transfer the file,
then xfs_copy from file to disk on server2.

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-03 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-03 20:35 clone of filesystem across network preserving ionodes Meij, Henk
2014-11-03 20:39 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-11-03 21:10   ` Meij, Henk
2014-11-03 21:56     ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-04  0:05 ` Peter Grandi
2014-11-04 14:16   ` Meij, Henk

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