'vol copy' can only be used to migrate data between two separate volumes, you cannot dump a remote volume into a Qtree.
What you can do, is use ndmpcopy to migrate data from your remote users volume, to the local users Qtree. That would be as quick, or quicker in some cases than vol copy. Your last resort would be using cp with a unix host in the middle..or an NT solution to copy it all.
The reason the destination volume cant be a root volume, is that you need the root volume to boot from..so therefore it cant be offline to be used as a vol copy or snapmirror destination volume.
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From: Allen, Pat [mailto:pat@mbari.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:22 AM
To: Toasters (E-mail)
Subject: Question on "vol copy"
Hi all,
I have an existing 740 (tornado) with two volumes - vol0 and users. I have a new 740 (tempest) with just vol0 and a qtree named "users". I want to copy all the user directories from torando:/vol/users to tempest:/vol/vol0/users in the easiest and quickest method possible. Both of the filers are connected via gig-ethernet to our main switch so using a filer-to-filer transfer would be the fastest.
Do any of you know if the "vol copy" command can be used in this case. Can I specify that the destination is actually a qtree?
The documentation for the vol command also says that the destination volume must be offline but that the root volume can't be taken offline. Is this a catch-22?
Thanks for the help!
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Pat Allen (pat(a)mbari.org)
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