Before using the Server Consolidation Utility to copy data from NetWare servers to OES Linux servers, you should be aware of the issues described in this section.
Novell recommends that you use Storage Management Services (SMS) tools to copy data from NetWare servers to OES Linux servers. Using SMS preserves as many of the NetWare trustee rights and file/directory attributes as possible.
The Novell Server Consolidation Utility uses SMS as its file copy engine for NetWare consolidations.
If you copy data using other tools, you risk losing file ownership information.
NCP Server for Linux provides the same trustee rights for both NSS and traditional Linux file systems. These are the same rights that exist for the NSS file system on NetWare:
NCP Server for Linux supports the following NetWare file and directory attributes on both NSS and traditional Linux file systems on Linux:
Other NSS file and directory attributes are supported on NSS volumes on Linux. You can use the attrib command to view and modify these attributes. However, they are not viewable through any NCP clients.
The NCP Extended Attributes (supported in early versions of NCP) are not supported on Linux.
If the Server Consolidation Utility encounters files with Macintosh* resource forks (supported in early versions of NCP), the resource forks are not copied to the Linux server. However, if you use Macintosh-based backup/restore tools that use AppleTalk* Filing Protocol (AFP) when migrating Macintosh files to a Linux server, you won't lose any of the Macintosh-specific metadata.
If you copy files from a NetWare source server that have the Delete Inhibit attribute set, the files cannot be deleted from the destination NSS volume on an OES Linux server.
Novell has provided a new attrib command for OES Linux that lets you remove the Delete Inhibit attribute, as well as set or modify other supported NetWare attributes on Linux. Enter attrib -h for online help.
After copying files from a NetWare source server to an OES Linux destination server, the creation dates for those files change to today's date rather than the date the files were originally created. Linux doesn't provide a Creation Date field for file systems, so NCP Server displays the current date.
If you need to transfer data from a Traditional NetWare file system volume on NetWare to an NSS volume on OES Linux, you must first install NFS name space support on the Traditional NetWare volume.
Without the NFS name space loaded, the Server Consolidation Utility file copy fails with an error message indicating there is not enough disk space.
Novell recommends that you do not enable the Compare Files and Folders verification when copying data from NetWare to Linux. If you do enable this check, you should expect to see many errors reported in the log file, because of the inherent differences in how Linux stores file system data.
When using the Server Consolidation Utility to copy data from servers storing double-byte character set data (Japanese, Korean, and other non-ASCII characters) or extended ASCII character data (multinational characters), you must enable UTF-8 support in the Novell ClientTM for Windows 4.91. (UTF-8 support is turned off by default.) This prevents trustees and ownerships from being lost, and also avoids problems with NCP having to use escape sequences when converting characters that don't map to the local code page.