From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx2.redhat.com (mx2.redhat.com [10.255.15.25]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1NBmhFZ020519 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:48:43 -0500 Received: from mail2.syneticon.net (mail.syneticon.net [213.239.212.131]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1NBmfc4003960 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:48:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A784FDE4 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:48:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2.syneticon.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linux [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14648-03 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:48:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net (postfix1.syneticon.net [192.168.112.6]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:48:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (filter1.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79676947F for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:47:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net ([192.168.113.4]) by localhost (192.168.113.3 [192.168.113.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id xE+7Sf5QBIr2 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:48:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from [81.173.150.170] (xdsl-81-173-150-170.netcologne.de [81.173.150.170]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:47:37 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45DED477.8040809@wpkg.org> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:48:07 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] moving logical volumes to another system *remotely* - how? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development I have a server which stores several LVM-2 logical volumes. As this system is pretty loaded, I'd like to move some of the logical volumes to another machine. It has to be done remotely, so I can't do it as described in the LVM HOWTO (where one basically adds/replaces disks in one machine). My common sense tells me that I should: 1. Unmount/not use the logical volumes on the source server 2. Make volumes of the same size on the target server 3. Copy it somehow over network I'm not sure of 2 (make volumes of exactly the same size) and 3 (how to copy it all over network, if possible, using SSH only). -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org