For more information on how to go about doing it using ndmp see: http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=ntapcs2471

Paul Chan NOW KB team

-----Original Message----- From: Igor Schein [mailto:igor@txc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:56 AM To: Caven, Marilyn Cc: 'Geoff Hardin'; toasters Subject: Re: moving files between filers

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:19:40AM -0700, Caven, Marilyn wrote:

If the development data is on a separate volume from the production data you can do a volcopy which works quite well. There is an option to turn up the throttle of the volcopy to 10 (max) on source filer. The destination volume must be offline when the data is being copied and it will write over anything on the destination volume.

If the dev and prod data is on the same volume, I've always used tar and directed the output to a nfs mounted filesystem from another filer.

If, like in my situation, you need to constantly move data between 2 production filers over GB pipe, ndmpcopy is a clear winner speed-wise.

Igor