Migrating Placeholders from old lun to new lun
Hello,
I have a Windows file server that has a large number of files (50TB, many millions of files) archived with Enterprise Vault. Time has come to replace the SAN storage unit attached to the server so I would like to migrate the archived stubs "placeholders" from the LUN on the old SAN to a new LUN on the new SAN. I know that Enterprise Vault FSA has a placeholder migration tool in FSAutility, I tried this and found it to be very slow, I estimated it would take around 3 months to migrate the placeholders using this.
Is there a quicker way to do this? Is there a utility like Robocopy that I can use to copy the placeholders without recalling them? (I tried Robocopy and it doesn't work). From what I understand, I need a utility that will copy the "placeholders" (reparse points) as "placeholders" and that will also copy the alternate data stream that goes with them.
Many thanks
Richard.
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I always used FSAUtility to move the PH to another storage. I think there no other utility to move them.
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I am afraid I have to agree. Since the placeholders are customised by Symantec, only they know how to deal with them.
There is a pretty comprehensive white paper which discusses the options and processes, called
Migrating and Consolidating File Servers with Enterprise Vault
Which you can find here
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
If you want to dig under the hood nirsoft have a handy utility called Alternate StreamsView which allows you to investigate alternate data streams
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/alternate_data_stream...
Hope that helps
Thankyou
John Gowing - Symantec EV Exchange STS
DFA Solutions
Cape Town
Dear all,
Many thanks for your help. I think I've found a way to move them using NetBackup - this appears to understand placeholders so backing them up and restoring them should work.
Many thanks.
Richard you beat me to the punch.
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