Sounds like a big job and I don't envy you. Could you let me know how you get on with the switch. I have always used a cross over cable without trouble.. Cheers Yas On Jul 7, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Jerrod Howard wrote: > No I'm not unixified...heh > > More than likely I will just do it over a switch I have here in the > office > over the weekend. It is two windows systems (2000 server and 2003 > server > that house all of OMRF's imaging files for all the imaging facility > users, > so I have to make sure everything is double and triple protected. I > can't > rsync since it's windows based, without going through a lot of hoopla > with > Cygwin (which I could do but by the time I had it figured out I could > have > done it the hard way) ;) The 2000 server is an adaptec 2200S attached > to a > 10 drive RAID5 array, the 2003 server is a 2200S attached to a 10 drive > 1.2TB RAID5 array. They both have external connections, but since both > are > mounted by their own cards, I didn't think you could. > > The whole reason for this is we got a new tape backup system that will > do > 600gig, which will cover our whole imaging server. Right now we have 4 > partitions of 60 gig so we can fit each array on one tape for full > backups. > Now I can get them all in one tape, but on two of the arrays, I need to > expand them since they are filling up so fast, and a few others I need > to > shrink. Before I start tampering with the array though, I'm going to > do full > backups on tape as well as copy over to a new server, then blowout and > rebuild it into one array (for both my sanity and for administration > purposes on my end). I have a gigabit switch in the office that I'll > just > drop between them and get it rolling on saturday and come up on Sunday > and > get the array done. I'll have it all on tape as well as doing an > integrity > check on the data moved. Then move it all back and be done with it (I > hope). > > At any rate, thanks all for the comments and help. > > J > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yasvir Tesiram [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:53 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Question on peer-to-peer SCSI connections > > > Holy smoke. Didn't know you were still alive. I have no idea what > Imaging 1 and 5 are. I don't know how transferring 500G will affect the > rest of the network. What do you think? > > Yas > > > On Jul 7, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Alan Shields wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:25:27AM -0500, Yasvir Tesiram wrote: >>> I assume you are unixified. >> >> I'd prefer we kept medical discussions off list. I mean, what >> difference >> does it make if.... >> >> Oh, right. >> >> Yeah. >> >>> 1. mount a file system for the scsi device via mount /dev/scd?? >>> <mount >>> point> on machine 1. OK, this is vague. You will need to fiddle to >>> find >>> an entry in /dev that will work. >>> >>> 2. The other easier method is via ethernet and a cross-over cable. >>> o You will need to manually change your network settings >>> temporarily. >>> Choose an IP address for machine 1., e.g. 128.250.58.177. >>> o Set the other machine IP address to 128.250.58.178. Just >>> make sure >>> the domain part matches. >>> o subnet mask 255.255.255.0. >>> o The target machine should be set up to allow remote >>> connections >>> etc. >>> o ftp, rsync, or rcp from machine 1 to 2. >>> >>> Method 2 will also work for Windoze and computers with real OS's.I >>> have >>> a cross over cable here. You are most welcome to borrow it. >> >> Not sure how the networking people would feel about it, but I'd do the >> transfer through the wall jacks. With a crossover cable you don't get >> duplex, and that makes a big difference on large transfers. Either a >> private switch (not a hub) or the wall jacks. >> >> Just an aside, >> Alan >> Yasvir Tesiram PostDoctoral Fellow Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Free Radical Biology and Ageing Research Program 825 NE 13th Street, OKC, OK, 73104 P: (405) 271 7126 F: (405) 271 1795 E: [log in to unmask]