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Moving NON Home Directory Data From One Server to Another (Traditional to NSS Too!)
Well, here's the scoop. Take Novell Storage Manager 2.5 and create an Action Object that performs the copy process for you!!! This is SaWeeeet!
Create the LDIF File
From the ConsoleOne Directory drop to a windows command line.
ldapadd -x -h 10.1.1.20 -D cn=admin,o=central -W -f
Example: copy_Data_Dir.LDIF version: 1 dn: cn=Copy_Program_Dir,ou=nsm_actionobjects,ou=storagemgr,o=central changetype: add objectclass: cccFSFactoryAction cccFSFactoryActionPath1: cn=ESTEACH1_VOL1,ou=eastside,o=central#4#PROGRAM cccFSFactoryActionOption: <Option><ParentPaths>1</ParentPaths></Option> cccFSFactoryActionPath2: cn=ccsoes1_eastside,ou=datacenter,o=central#4#PROGRAM cccFSFactoryActionOperation: COPYDIR cccFSFactoryActionTrigger: READY
Notes: Here is what each line does:
dn=eDir object name
ActionPath1 = Source
ActionOption ParentPath1 - If Directory is NOT there then create the missing Directory
ActionPath2 = Destination
Operation - Copy Data
Trigger - LETS GO!
Once the copy process is over, delete the eDirctory Object, change your
paths and import it again! Nice huh!
Thanks to Condrey Backline Support!
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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Nice way to do it, but why not go the SCMT route?
Submitted by Magic31 on 15 July 2009 - 12:03am.
Interesting way to move your data... Curious why you would use this over SCMT 1.2 though (other than not needing the Windows platform or additional tools to do the copy)?
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Good question
Submitted by noneal on 15 July 2009 - 10:30am.
In that particular environemtn a couple of servers were having a very tough time with nfs, Traditional Volumes and the SCMT. Plus we were neck deep in NSM 2.5 so the Action Object utility came up and worked fine. I hope this makes since. BTW, since then, we fixed the issues with nfs.
Norm
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