Novell Server Consolidation Utility 2

[SimonMag]

Hi,

I am planing a migration from Netware 5.1 to Netware 6.5 (two servers in a cluster). I have to migrate 300gb of data to a SAN (not the problem) but keep the trustee assignments during the migration, I am also migrating to a brand new tree of a different name to the source.

Does anyone have any tips on the best way to do this?

Thanks

Simon,

 

[Provogeek]

300gb of data?, hope you use a gig card. Will still take about 30 hours to complete (expect it to take about 100 hours if you use 100mb).

In any case, you should use a trustee backup utility to backup trustee assignments. Going to a different tree will make restoring a bit more difficult. The consolodation utility will do it, but still use a trustee backup utility to cover your butt. There are a few different version you can use. The trustee.nlm one will create a file you will ahve to edit to change context information if is any different.

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Brent Schmidt Certified nut case
Senior Network Engineer

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[marvhuffaker]

This is what I have to say... I would NEVER EVER use the migration or server consolidation utility to move 300gb of data. It's too damn slow.

GIG cards and Robocopy work sweet (NT resource kit. Did 900GB of data once overnight. Still not sure how we got that performance out of it. Maybe something to do with the san infrastructure.

Not sure what you're trying to do with the tree but if I understand your logic, I wouldn't recommend it

Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

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[SimonMag]

Marvin/Brent,

Thanks for the the advice. What I am trying to do with the trees is as follows:

We have a tree on our 5.1 servers at the moment which has been around for 5 years+ what we want to do is move all our users (and trustee assignments) over to a brand new directory tree on the 6.5 servers, and I am trying to find the best way of doing it.
I was going to look at maybe a LDAP export from the source tree to the destination?

Thanks

Simon,

 

[Provogeek]

The LDAP idea will work, just remember, it will not carry passwords

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Brent Schmidt Certified nut case
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