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Migrating Data Between a General-Purpose File System and an SFS Turbo File System

Solution Overview

You can migrate data from an SFS general-purpose file system to an SFS Turbo file system or the other way around.

This solution creates a Linux ECS to connect a general-purpose file system with an SFS Turbo file system.

Constraints

  • This solution is only applicable for the data migration of Linux ECSs.
  • The Linux ECS, general-purpose file system, and SFS Turbo file system must be in the same VPC.
  • Incremental migration is supported, so you can only migrate the changed data.

Prerequisites

  • You have created a Linux ECS.
  • You have created a general-purpose file system and an SFS Turbo file system and have obtained their addresses.

Resource Planning

Table 1 describes the resource planning in this solution.

Table 1 Resource planning

Resource

Example Configuration

Description

ECS

Specifications: 8 vCPUs | 16 GB | c7.2xlarge.2

OS: Linux

Region: EU-Dublin

VPC: VPC1

Ensure that the /mnt/src and /mnt/dst directories have been created.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the ECS console.
  2. Log in to the Linux ECS.
  3. Mount file system 1 (either the general-purpose or SFS Turbo file system). After that, you can access file system 1 on the Linux ECS. 

    mount -t nfs -o vers=3,timeo=600,noresvport,nolock <address-of-file-system-1> /mnt/src

  4. Mount file system 2 (the other file system that is not mounted in the previous step). After that, you can access file system 2 on the Linux ECS. 

    mount -t nfs -o vers=3,timeo=600,noresvport,nolock <address-of-file-system-2> /mnt/dst

  5. Download and install rclone. For the download address, see https://rclone.org/downloads/.
  6. Synchronize data. 

    rclone copy /mnt/src /mnt/dst -P --transfers 32 --checkers 64 --links --create-empty-src-dirs

    The following describes the parameters. Set transfers and checkers based on the system specifications.

    • /mnt/src: source path
    • /mnt/dst: destination path
    • --transfers: number of files that can be transferred concurrently
    • --checkers: number of local files that can be scanned concurrently
    • -P: data copy progress
    • --links: replicates the soft links from the source. They are saved as soft links in the destination.
    • --copy-links: replicates the content of files to which the soft links point. They are saved as files rather than soft links in the destination.
    • --create-empty-src-dirs: replicates the empty directories from the source to the destination.

    After data synchronization is complete, go to the target file system to check whether data is migrated.

Verification

  1. Log in to the Linux ECS.
  2. Check the file synchronization results on the destination server. 

    cd /mnt/dst
ls | wc -l

  3. If the data volume is the same as that on the source server, data is migrated successfully.