Hi All,
I have what seems like a pretty basic migration question ...
I'm working with a customer who is planning a migration, they are doing a hardware refresh of a pair of FAS2040 systems with ONTAP 8.0.x to a new FAS2552 HA pair with ONTAP 8.2.3P2 (still 7-mode).
Amongst other things they have a single large volume / CIFS Share with user home directories. In the past they have had issues with getting the access permissions and quotas for the individual users on this share to work they way would like.
It sounds to me like an idea situation to use qtrees, per user, on the new systems. However, what then is the best way to migrate the user data/content?
If the target location on the new Filer should consist of numerous per user qtrees, it seems I cannot use "simply" bulk copy with SnapMirror, since the qtrees do not exist on the source. I don't know of a way to convert a directory to be a qtree after it is created ... So perhaps it is necessary to manually (well, with a script) create the individual qtrees and then copy the user data to each new qtree. However then it seems to me that the data will have to be copied from the client side, per user directory i.e. using something like robocopy on Windows or whatever the best UNIX equivalent would be.
This all seems a bit more complicated that I had hoped :) Maybe I am missing something - any suggestions?
After creating and populating a user qtree, is there some mechanism they could use to redirect access for that specific dataset from the old location to the new qtree?
Thanks in advance!
Yours, Robb.