Hi,
Has anyone any experience of converting a directory to a qtree (we want to make use of the qtree to qtree snapmirror features in DOT 6.2 and greater)
There's a doc on NOW which gives two ways either do a copy, which requires enough free space (which we don't have) or to use the built in ndmpcopy feature of DOT.
There's also the possibility of doing a 'mv' on each file, although I'd be a bit concerned that this might leave the filesystem in a less than optiomal state on the filer.
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has done this, especially about throughput (The directories we need to convert have approx 150G of mail in them, so lots of small files, on a 840C) GB
Garrett Burke, Service Implementation & Support Manager, Eircomnet. http://www.eircom.net
As far as I know, there is no way to move a file across a qtree boundary other than to copy the file and delete the original.
Even if you use the unix "mv" command, when crossing a qtree boundary mv must copy and delete.
Since you have limited free space, you may need to copy and delete each mailbox individually. If you are using snapshots, this will obviously gobble up most if not all of your snapshot reserve, so you may need to delete all your snapshots beforehand.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support