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July 1st, 2011 04:00
Duplication of the copy among difeerent shares in the same fyle system
Hi everyone,
I'm encountering some problem in moving data from a Windows Server 2003 to the Celerra NS120. My goal is to move all shares including also the NT permissions. I created a file system inside of which I created two shares for the same CIFS server. When I try to copy (I'm using Robocopy) the contents of a Windows share the data being replicated in both Celerra shares while the script foreseens copying in a single Celerra share. Can anyone tell me why?
thanks.
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Rainer_EMC
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July 4th, 2011 06:00
Just use the MMC (computer management or shared folders plugin connected to the CIFS server) - it allows to create the directory when creating a share
or connect to the C$ share like \\ \C$ then navigate to the file system and create your directory
I think the confusion comes from the fact that the Celerra GUI or CLI commands to create a share dont create a directory
You need to create that directory before from a Windows client so that it gets the correct owner and security
Or create a treequota - that does create a directory
Rainer
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July 1st, 2011 04:00
so your robocopy script is copying to one share buy you see data on both shares ? Are you sharing the same directory multiple times ?
Fabio_Nanni
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July 1st, 2011 04:00
Thanks for your quick reply.
Yes, I see data on both Celerra shares.
I don't understand your second question. Are you referring to Windows or Celerra share?
dynamox
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July 1st, 2011 05:00
Celerra, just like on Windows you can share a directory on Celerra multiple times (different share names), so is it possible that both of your shares on Celerra point to the same directory ?
Fabio_Nanni
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July 1st, 2011 05:00
The shares have different names and are placed under the same file system so figurately is as if they were on the same level of a tree structure, does this mean they are pointing to the same path?
dynamox
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July 1st, 2011 07:00
if you have one file system that looks like this:
/marketing
you can share marketing directory multiple times, one share can be called "marketing" and another share can be called "Fabio". Regardless to which share you connect, both point to the same directory on the file system so you will see the same content.
Fabio_Nanni
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July 1st, 2011 08:00
Perhaps I start from a different concept.
Just to clarify the meaning of used terms. When I talk about share I mean the name of the share created inside a file system that not necessarily is a directory.
Why do you consider one file system as a directory? If you create one file system on the Celerra from the Windows perspective this is not a directory. In fact you cannot create any directory if before you don't create one share.
Making an example:
file system CIFS server
/marketing Netbios_name
from Windows you type \\Netbios_name and you don't see and create anything
file system CIFS server Share
/marketing Netbios_name Share_name
from Windows you type \\Netbios_name and see Sharename as a share from which you can set the security permissions.
So what about how create multiple different shares which need to contain different data and rights inside the same file system?
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July 1st, 2011 08:00
Check the CIFS servers out on your Celerra. You might have your shares on the Global CIFS server and they're showing up on more than one CIFS server.
Fabio_Nanni
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July 8th, 2011 07:00
Hi Rainer,
thanks to your answer I solved this issue.
Rainer_EMC
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July 8th, 2011 09:00
Thanks for your feedback
Rainer