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February 9th, 2012 03:00
Use sharedup without source shares up?
Hi All,
I have 4 x VNX 5300's that I have recently migrated some windows clusters to. I was just wondering I want to have a backup of all our shares incase something ever goes wrong. So I have used sharedup to output all the shares on all my CIFS servers on the VNX.
Now one small problem if say the VNX was broken and I lost all my shares it seems sharedup will not work on importing them all back in from the txt file because it needs to have the source shares available (which they wouldnt be because I have lost them all due to some problem..) is there a way to tell sharedup just import the shares from the txt file? Its a little annoying that it needs the shares "online" in order to import. If there is another way of doing this thats better then please let me know???
Thanks very much for your help...
CRTP.
dynamox
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February 9th, 2012 06:00
if i remember rgiht it does not need to be online, you can export to a file and then import from a file.
/FO
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bergec
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February 9th, 2012 07:00
No, sharedup is "real time" and needs both src and dst
The /FO creates a file that you can edit if path of shares differ from source to destination, it does not contain the share permissions
You could create an empty structure on yet another server to keep track of the permissions
Claude
dynamox
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February 9th, 2012 07:00
/SD will not work ?
CRTP
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February 9th, 2012 08:00
Hi,
So if sharedup isnt a very good way of restoring shares if we have a disaster whats a good way of reimporting all my shares into the VDM if something goes wrong?
Thanks..
bergec
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February 9th, 2012 11:00
Some customers use Sharedup or RMTSHARE to replicate shares and shares permissions to another Celerra or server
If you are not concerned with share permissions, you can just keep a copy of the outpout of the "server_export server_X" command (it contains share names, pathnames, umask and comments)
Also make sure you keep a copy of the "nas_db backups" on an external location. They are located in /nas/var/backup and contain all information about the NS configuration (probably also share information) but this backup can only be restored by EMC Tech Support
Claude