migrate to smaller Filesystem...

Oh I forgot, that I have a replicator_v2 licence, but I guess this needs to have filesystems of the same size... Or can I replicate qtrees between different size filesystems?

Replicator would require identical source and target file system size. You could use server_archive with -J parameter which should preserve permissions ACLs to do the initial copy and then finish up with emcopy/robocopy for the incremental copy. You can also look at NDMPCopy, you can find a document on this forum that explains how to use.

Would this be the correct syntax?

server_archive server_2 -rw -J olddir1 newdir1

server_archive server_2 -rw -J olddir2 newdir2

server_archive server_2 -rw -J olddir2 newdir2

Any idea with which speed this would go? There are a LOT of files in there and on SATA disks...

Whether I run this as nasadmin or as root, it always tells me that the directory cannot be found.

I guess I need to tell this stupid box where the directories are EXACTLY ? But I always forget where they are mounted... I also expected this command to be msart enough to know that I want to copy filesystems used by the Celerra.

Hello,

We have similar issue .Actually we have a file-system of 6 TB and we need to migrate to 3 new file-systems of 2 TB each.

How we can achieve it.Above mentioned command to migrate the tree quota on the File-system.

Please direct me.

Many thanks

create new file systems, create tree quotas and then use server_archive to copy the data.

Thanks for the mail.

Will Server_archive would work for migrating the FS01 of 6TB and it has 3 tree quotas of 2TB each to FS02,FS03 of 2TB each.

Tree quotas :

/FS01/Tree1

/FS01/Tree2

/FS01/Tree3

Command :  server_archive server_2 -rw /FS01/Tree1    /FS02

                   server_archive server_2 -rw /FS01/Tree2    /FS03

                   server_archive server_2 -rw /FS01/Tree3     /FS04

Would this works.Please confirm

do you need to maintain tree quotas on FS02, 03 and 04 ? If yes then you need to create tree quota directories first and then use server_archive, ie

server_archive server_2 -rw /FS01/Tree1 /FS02/Tree1

if you need to preserve Security ACLs (windows permissions), you need to add -J parameter.  Try this process with a test file system so you feel comfortable.

Really must appreciated.It's working.

My team mate raised a query like there is FS01 of 4TB and it doesn't have any tree quotas.Now customer wanted migrate to different file-systems FS2, FS3  of 2TB each as EMC recommended 2TB is Std NAS FS size.

We need to decide how to divide the 4TB into 2TB,2TB  file-systems.May I know how we can proceed if File-system deosn't have tree quotas.

Thanks!

if you don't need to track/limit directory utilization, then you don't need to worry about tree quotas. One thing to remember about tree quotas is that you cannot apply tree quota to an existing directory. So if you need to maintain tree quota requirements on target file systems ..you first must create tree quota directories and only then copy data into them. Otherwise simply copy data to new file systems.

Thank you very much for the info.