if you have the license, snapmirror works the best for this kind of operation. :)

--
Daniel Leeds
Senior Systems Administrator
Edmunds.com



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Michael Galloway
Sent: Tue 4/10/2007 2:36 PM
To: Brian Dunbar
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: ndmpcopy and the newb

brian, its full path:

ndmpcopy [options] sourcefiler:/path/to/source/dir destfiler:/path/to/dest/dir

-- michael

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:44:08PM -0500, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to managing Filers - I hope you'll put up with a newb question or two while I get on my feet.  I've not been left entirely on my own here - but there are two unix guys here to mange a lot of servers where before there were four of us .. and the two guys who had done this job previously are the ones who left for greener pastures.  So I've got a mature and reasonably stable infrastructue to work with at least.
>
>
> My first task is to move a volume from a busy filer to a non-busy filer. 
>
> 1. The preferred method (for our shop, I'm told) is to use ndmpcopy
>
> I've got shell access to both filers, they can ping each other. I've got a desination volume created.
>
> ndmpcopy [options] source destination
>
> The source and destination specify a hostname (no problem) and aboslute pathname of the directory to be used for the transfer.  Does this mean the absolute pathname of the source/destination volume?  Or .. something else?  If the former how do I find that?
>
> 2. Unless there is a better way to do this?  I can of course mount both volumes via NFS from a 3rd host and simply move then but (from what I've read) ndmpcoy is a better choice.
>
> Brian Dunbar
> Plexus
> brian.dunbar@plexus.com