Hi All,



I have a DELL-Equallogic SAN box on which I've put a database in a
volume. I've snapshotted that volume and then cloned the snapshot into a
new volume which I wish to mount. Having mounted it I can then back it
up to tape and replicate it elsewhere.



Trouble is that I can't work out a good way to determine what device the
new volume is on so I can mount it.



This is what I've kludged up...Suggestions would be appreciated...

BTW. I've tried using kudzu but this wasn't very useful ... it didn't
seem to do anything.



In this example I have database bowtest and the snapshot is associated
with checkpoint 'c0002001'. Furthermore 'ingres' has sudo permissions to
everything.

a. First cat /proc/partitions and save the output...

b. Discover the new iSCSI target...

sudo iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.0.210

192.168.0.210:3260,1
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-da3132e04-73b000000e74a5c5-bowtest

192.168.0.210:3260,1
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-e6e132e04-6a8000001234a5f1-bowtest-c
0002001



c. Get an initiator to connect to the new volume:

sudo iscsiadm --mode node \

--targetname
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-e6e132e04-6a8000001234a5f1-bowtest-c
0002001 \

--portal 192.168.0.210 --loginall=all



d. sudo mkdir /bowtest-c0002001



e. cat /proc/partitions

This shows the new entries....

8 16 1048581120 sdb

8 17 1048578583 sdb1



f. sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /bowtest-c0002001



It seems to work, but it has a real kludgy feel about it.