At 03:14 PM 8/20/07, you wrote:
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On 20 Aug 2007 at 12:55, A.Lizard wrote:
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From: "A.Lizard" <alizard@ecis.com>
Subject: Re: Altering a Physical Volume's UUID on
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> At 07:48 AM 8/20/07, you wrote:
> While you probably describe a better solution, this was written to provide
> a general solution to the "change uuid" problem to the community that
> actually works on SATA and to provide a how-to reference for LVM
filesystem
> cloning in the context of the "how to set up a mirror drive quickly and
> easily" section of an article in progress written for novices on how to
> transition from an IDE to SATA drive in a Linux workstation.
>
> dd + changing uuid + vgrename appears to be the quickest and easiest
> solution for LVM drive cloning, since the user won't have to worry about
> setting up drive partitions or creating a MBR or setting up an LVM
> filesystem manually.
>
I must be missing something hear. I currently handle the g4l (ghost for
linux) project,
NOW I find out about this? Thanks for letting me know, I'll look into the
project.
which does disk and partitioning images using dd with ftp and
compression or can also do images to local drives or can clone disks.
I used dd between a pair of identical HDs.
Usually this is to the same size or larger disk, and I am aware of a
problem if cloning from an IDE drive to an SATA drive. The system will not
mount since the initrd doesn't include the SATA support.
Debian Etch (final) *does* support SATA, presumably including proper initrd
setup. Installers before Etch beta-4 don't.
http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/raid.htm
Thanks for writing this post, that is something I should have made clear in
my article-in-progress and ... now have.
I did the initial drive setup by doing a minimal install of Debian Etch to
the new disk to create partitions and the MBR and then opening a Live CD
and rsyncing (in overwrite mode) hda1 > sda1 and hda5 > sda5, then changing
the /boot/grub/device.map entry as follows:
(hd0) /dev/hda
from /dev/hda to /dev/sda
As soon as I did this, and changed /dev/hda5 to /dev/sda5 in /etc/fstab,
the system booted and operated normally. I am using that system to run the
e-mail client in which I am writing this post right now. (Windows is
running via a VMware Server guest)
For regular backup, I simply rsync from a modified Knoppix LiveCD with
rsync and dar scripts that automatically mount the drive partitions and
send the changes to a backup drive.
In my case, I upgraded a system from a failing IDE drive to a new much
larger SATA drive. It did not work at first because of tha problem. After
finding the problem, I was able to go back to the original drive, and I
used a process I would have to look for to create
and initrd with the support. Then just placed it in the boot directory,
and the
system worked fine.
I use the g4l to image my lab system that include 98, XP and Fedora with
LVM partitions. We did use Norton Ghost in the past, but it failed with LVM
partitions. (Actually, it would backup the LVM, but something in the boot
partition would cause it to crash, and could get no support from Norton).
Then I found g4u, and later g4l.
> There are several solutions to drive cloning for experienced users and
> admins, but for the newbie, quick, easy, and as few steps as possible are
> in order.
>
> A.Lizard
>
> >Message: 6
> >Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:51:49 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
> >Subject: Re: Altering a Physical Volume's UUID on SATA
> > hard drives [solved]
> >To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
> >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0708191740520.2161-100000@bmsred.bmsi.com>
> >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> >On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, A.Lizard wrote:
> >
> > > I bit-copied a backup LVM disk using dd from a Knoppix LiveCD (based on
> > > Debian) and wound up with duplicate volume and uuids, meaning I
couldn't
> > > mount both the main and backup volumes simultaneously at the same
time for
> > > subsequent backups. Of course, vgrename is ineffective to allow
> > > simultaneous mounting without changing the uuids.
> >
> >I would suggest copying (bitwise if desired) each LV individually to
another
> >volume group with a different name (and UUID). This gives you a lot more
> >flexibility with physical storage for primary vs backup volume groups.
> >Furthermore, your LV backup procedure can take snapshots of each LV first.
> >
> >--
> > Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
> > Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703
591-6154
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