[one-users] Move an image

[Nicolas Bélan]

Ok, good to see something is planned for 4.6 :)

I did it successfully, thanks to you !

worked like a charm !

Thank you

Nicolas.

Le 11/02/2014 19:59, Ruben S. Montero a écrit :
> No, you cannot yet :( see [1,2].
>
> However you can do the procedure manually. Let's assume that:
>
> a. You already have a new datastore, ready and available
> under /var/lib/one/datastores/<ID>
> b. There are no VMs running using the images to be moved
>
> Then:
>
> 1.- Move the image file to the new place, you can keep the hashed name 
>
> mv /var/lib/one/datastores/106/fc0b14ee* /var/lib/one/datastores/<ID>/
>
> 2.- Register a new image.You can keep the previous attributes if any
> (e.g. DRIVER or CACHE) **but be sure** to include:
>      * SOURCE set to point to the new location
>      * SIZE set to the original value
>
> This procedure can be easily script'ed if there are too many images. 
>
> Cheers
>
> Ruben
>
> [1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/2417
> [2] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1696
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Nicolas Bélan
> <nicolas.belan at gmail.com <mailto:nicolas.belan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello the list,
>
>     I just want to know if it is possible to "move" a disk image between
>     datastore.
>
>     The use case is:
>
>     I have a brand new JBOD, and I want to move  5TB of data from existing
>     DS to the new one.
>
>     I do not talk about System DS, but image DS.
>
>     [oneadmin] ll -h
>     /var/lib/one/datastores/106/fc0b14ee770a71c5db4ecd4947d13a10
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 oneadmin oneadmin 2,8T  6 feb. 10:40
>     /var/lib/one/datastores/106/fc0b14ee770a71c5db4ecd4947d13a10
>
>     I can move/rsync/anything the disk, but I would like to re-register it
>     like that (without any qemu-img convert) because, I do not want to
>     clone
>     it, just store it somewhere else.
>
>     Thank you for any web pointer, I did not find any :-/
>
>     Best regards,
>     Nicolas
>
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