Migfiles with --exclude-paths...

About to pull the trigger on a NetWare to OES migration. Interesting issue with migfiles.
We have a volume which hosts a number of departmental mapped drives (drive T and we're planning to go through a department at a time. I was planning to use --exclude-path to indicate which departments we have finished.
I know I can do each sub-folder individually. That script is pretty long since there are 40 or so folders in the DEPTS volume.
When I use --exclude-path and the --delete switch, migfiles does indeed exclude the specified NetWare source from the copy job. Unfortunately though, it doesn't exclude that folder on the destination path. All the files in that folder on the Linux OES box get deleted.
Is there anyway to have migfiles ignore a destination folder when using --delete? (Yes, I know I can write a script for each subfolder...)
Here's the command line we're using
migfiles -s servername -V DATAEPTS/ -x /media/nss/DATA --exclude-path DATAEPTS/IT -i --debug --sync "d-m-Y H:M" --delete --update-ifnewer
Thanks
jc

$(UHi jc,
What is the advantage of using --exclude-path option for each folder which you do not want to migrate rather than migrating folder by folder? Or may be I have not understood the use case correctly?
migfiles provides facility where, you can write set of source paths in a file and corresponding destination paths in other file. You need to pass these files to -V and -x options of migfiles perpended with a symbol '@'.
For eg:
sourceFile:
DATAEPTS/dep1
DATAEPTS/dep2
DATAEPTS/dep3
destFile:
/media/nss/DATA/dep1
/media/nss/DATA/dep2
/media/nss/DATA/dep3
And the migfiles command would be (During sync):
migfiles -s servername -V @sourceFile -x @destFile -i --debug --sync "d-m-Y H:M" --delete --update-ifnewer
Let us know if this does not solve the problem?
As you said --delete option does not exclude paths specified in --exclude-path from destination. --exclude-path only excludes files from source server.
Thanks,
Akthar.
>>> 9555269<[email protected]> 3/23/2010 10:36 PM >>>
About to pull the trigger on a NetWare to OES migration. Interesting
issue with migfiles.
We have a volume which hosts a number of departmental mapped drives
(drive T and we're planning to go through a department at a time. I
was planning to use --exclude-path to indicate which departments we have
finished.
I know I can do each sub-folder individually. _That_ script is pretty
long since there are 40 or so folders in the DEPTS volume.
When I use --exclude-path and the --delete switch, migfiles does indeed
exclude the specified NetWare source from the copy job. Unfortunately
though, it doesn't exclude that folder on the destination path. All the
files in that folder on the Linux OES box get deleted.
Is there anyway to have migfiles ignore a destination folder when using
--delete? (Yes, I know I can write a script for each subfolder...)
Here's the command line we're using
migfiles -s servername -V DATAEPTS/ -x /media/nss/DATA --exclude-path
DATAEPTS/IT -i --debug --sync "d-m-Y H:M" --delete --update-ifnewer
Thanks
jc
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