Frank,
If the ndmp or snap utilities aren't available, using multiple remote machines for the tar/cp will speed things up. Mount source and target filers on each box, and run cp commands for each subdirectory on the vol. When I did this, I listed the subdirs, then split that list by n boxes (12 I think it was) with a shell loop on each one doing something like the below. Parallel tuning applies, but it'd probably take more than a dozen cp on different hosts to saturate the filer.
for f in `cat $list` do cd $source/$f find . | cpio -dmpv $target/$f done
-- Dave Toal Systems reenignE Thomson & Thomson N. Quincy, MA
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Bonnet To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: 11/12/02 10:48 AM Subject: filer to filer copy
Hi
I want to transfert all users data from a F85 to a F87 is there some command to "safely" do such transfert I expect tar from a third remote machine would be very slow to do the job.
The two filers are attached to the LAN with a gigabit fiber link on the same switch.
THX