I've used solution 2 previously to split up 6 shares. Vol clone create Vol clone split Cleanup mess. (did this using systemshell as it doesn't care about permissions)
Part of the reason we had to do it this was that some of the file \ folder lengths \ depths were too long for robocopy. Plus, this is the quickest way to get up and running again when you are talking about a large amount of data.
It may have been easier to have new volumes and use junction paths or DFS to keep everything simple for the users.
Good luck!
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net toasters-bounces@teaparty.net On Behalf Of Peter D. Gray Sent: 08 May 2018 02:13 To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: moving CIFS shares
Hi people,
Background: we have 20 odd volumes for fileshares. We limit the size of the volumes to 10T. When a volume gets near full, we need to shuffle shares to new volumes or volumes with plenty of space.
Does anybody have a magical solution for moving fileshares between volumes? With minimal but not necessarily zero downtime?
Obvious solutions are:
1) Down share, copy share to new volume, up share 2) Down share, clone volume, up share on new volume, split volume, cleanup mess.
I was wondering if anybody has seen a system to proxy the share and move it in the background. I have seen this work with NFS shares but not with CIFS.
Any magicians out there?
Regards, pdg
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