On 2/29/08, Knut Kristan Weber <k.weber@science-computing.de> wrote:

Hello *,

we have a NetApp working as a CIFS-Filer.
A collegue wants to move about 6 TB of data in the directory scruture one
level up within the same volume.

Using the filer with a LUN as a block device would work like this.
A normal windows Server also can move data in between the same drive letter
without copying it - just in a scond.

But the NetApp has no solution I know so far to make a move when it works
itwself as a CIFS filer.
And even worse it does not only cost disk space because it copies and
deletes afterwards, but also all the 6 TB data move over the LAN.

Is there something like a move in advanced mode or any undocumented ways?
Or to use NDMP copy in such a way?

thanks a lot in advance

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