Moving home directories best practice

Question

I have storage manager 2.5 installed and working well and my users managed. I have about 200 users in different OUs that I want to move storage from one NW65 to another NW65. How do I go about doing this in a smooth fashion without downtime for the users. I would go slowly and mig them over about 10 at a time. I did a quick search and didn't find much. Is there somewhere that explains it? Thanks

Answer 1

mfairpo,
I would follow the steps that you guys have already talked about.
Run a Consistency Check to make sure all the users are managed, and that
not none of the home directory paths are pointed to the root of the
volume, etc.
Update the Policy to reflect the change in target path.
Run the Enforce Policy Path management action, but use the MASK field to
move a few at a time. "a*" will move the users whose CN starts with a.
If you want to move several letters at a time you can use "a*|b*" to
move the users who start with a OR b.
Use the move schedule if you don't want NSM to do the work during the
business day.
NSM will make sure that the user is logged out before attempting to move
their storage. The event will remaining pending until they logout.
thanks,
NSM Development
On 9/8/2010 10:06 AM, mfairpo wrote:
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> Yes, a new Target Path (removing the old path) ought cause pending move
> Events upon a back-fill operation (Enforce Policy Paths). However, we
> also set Rename Inhibit + Delete Inhibit attributes in all policy.
> Whilst I can unset these, I wish some clear guidance.
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