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o off-line rebuild with norton-reinit -dump/-restore. + user can restore the identical dumpfile with the old norton to migrate back. + server RVM will be as fresh as possible with minimal fragmentation. - have to purge backup volumes. This seems best; I want data migration and little pain, but I don't mind downtime to do it. I have important data, but I don't have a horde of users and 'no coda saturday' is fine, really. But, I've always been unclear about dump/restore. I would like to be able to restore and create a volume, possibly replicated, that was just like the one I dumped. But, if it isn't too much manual work that's probably good enough; my server is so ancient (I think I started in 1998 or 1999) that it could use with a clean start. A further question is whether the dump/restore changes volume ids and fids; if so it forces a reinit of all venii that have dealt with this server. So it might be nice to make dump/restore spiffier. -- Greg Troxel <gdt_at_ir.bbn.com>Received on 2003-10-17 20:35:33