[Lustre-discuss] MDT backup/restore

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 13:39 -0400, Jerome, Ron wrote:
> Hi all, 

Hi Ron,

> I attempting to move my MDT to a new server and I'm seeing strange
> behavior when trying to restore the MDT tar file taken from the original
> disk to the new one.  Basically, the existing MDT data appears to use
> about 2.5G, however when I restore the tar file on the new server it
> completely fills a 120G partition and the restoration fails with out of
> disk space errors??  

There has been a lot of discussion on this list about backing up the MDT
for relocation.  Please review the archives.  IIRC, there was even
somebody reporting this exact issue.

b.

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