Hi,
We're running an F540 with Ontap 5.3.2D3, setup for NFS and CIFS services. Most (~95%) of our NFS clients are Solaris 2.6 machines. I would like to know if there is an easy way to migrate home-dir data off of the filer and onto a Sun server (Enterprise 450 with Solaris 2.6).
Doing a plain 'cp' tends to skip over .* files and is a bit tricky about retaining permissions. We also have a script 'copy_dir' that uses the copy_io command, but it takes an extraordinarily long time. We're talking a 6 Gb home directory taking more than 12 hours to copy (over a 100 Mbs connection, too). I am sure that there is no problems with the network, and I suspect that the copy_io is getting hung up trying to copy over each version of the .snapshot directories. Invariably, I will get a stale NFS error and eventually time out.
Is there any way getting past the .snapshot directories during copies? I imagine that other Solaris admins must have run into this problem before.
---------- Yicheng Li (480)413-6636 WISD Engineering Network