Voting and ocr migration

DB 11.1.0.7 HP Ux
We need to move the Voting/OCR which are on raw disk to new storage raw disks.
Currently we have Soft link fronm all the nodes pointing to the shared voting and ocr raw disks.
The current plan is to Shut CRS, and Backup the Voting and OCR disk to the new disks.(using dd command)
Change the soft link on all the nodes to the new disks, to which the current vote/ocr disk are backed up.
Will this approach work ?

Hi,
if you gave the softlink during installation time, and that is listed in
# ocrcheck
and
# crsctl query css votedisks
then yes this will work. (Since DD was the suggested tool for backing up Votedisk in 11.1 anyway, and for OCR you can do the backup with dd as well, especially if clusterware is shut down).
Regards
Sebastian

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