Robocopy as a migration tool

[GAZ]

I am an Isilon newbie. I had minor trouble in the past migrating Windows servers shares to NetApp CIFS shares but found that as long as I configured the /COPY switch appropriately, the file permissions and ownership came over fairly well.

Is Robocopy a tool I should use here or are there native Isilon tools to migrate Windows shares?

Also, does anyone here have any advice on migrating from an EMC Celerra to the Isilon?  This will be my next project.

[LinuxRox]

use emcopy

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[SCR512]

I would recommend xxcopy as it can handle stripping out the compression file attribute in NTFS if you are migrating data that was compressed on a NTFS volume.

[LinuxRox]

@SCR512 - do you know if xxcopy multi-threaded ?

[Robert Soeting]

We used robocopy, from a celerra to Isilon. Do not forget the "as root" option in shares. This helps with setting the correct rights.

[GAZ]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 6:22:58 AM UTC-8, Robert Soeting wrote:

We used robocopy, from a celerra to Isilon. Do not forget the "as root" option in shares. This helps with setting the correct rights.

Thanks for your input!

"as root"?  I'm not sure what this means.  I've never seen that option in Robocopy...

[SCR512]

Ah, not really.... I mean you could get it to sorta behave in this manner but it isn't trivial easy like it is in robocopy.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/message/15858

[Andrew Stack]

You asked if there is a native Isilon tool for migrating from Netapp to Isilon. The answer is isi_vol_copy which uses basically ndmp to copy volumes and/or qtrees from Netapp to Isilon.  The advantage of this built in OneFS tool is that it is point to point where as a 3rd party tool needs to be run on an external server.  So speed wise this is your best option.  It copies over both Share and File Perms.  The disadvantage is that it is not as mature as other tools so I recommend upgrading to OneFS 6.5.5.16 (due out next week) in order to minimize migration errors.  6.5.5.16 has many fixes for their isi_vol_copy tool that Isilon has identified and corrected within this release.

Cheers,

Andrew

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[Robert Soeting]

The option "as root" is on the Isilon in the share configuration. I provides root eq rights to who you want it to have.

We had problems setting rights during copy, and this option fixed that.

[GAZ]

On Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:49:51 AM UTC-8, Robert Soeting wrote:

The option "as root" is on the Isilon in the share configuration. I provides root eq rights to who you want it to have.

We had problems setting rights during copy, and this option fixed that.

Ah, I think this may fix another issue I am having with an application archiving it's logs to Isilon!

Thanks!  

[Damal]

Hi Andrew, 

Does isi_vol_copy copies both shares and file permissions with the command isi_vol_copy filername:/vol/volx -sa user:passcode/ifs/volx 

Should there be any other parameters to be included ?

[padmanabhaiah v]

 isi_vol_copy is a best option for migrating the data from celerra/VNX to Isilon. But, make sure that you are running the Celerra DART 6.x and Isilon OneFs 7.0.2 or higher.

[YOGA DAMALACHERVU]

Can you share with us the issues that you ran in to using vol copy

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:50 AM, padmanabhaiah v <padmana...@gmail.com> wrote:

 isi_vol_copy is a best option for migrating the data from celerra/VNX to Isilon. But, make sure that you are running the Celerra DART 6.x and Isilon OneFs 7.0.2 or higher.

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