Infrastructure Software

Hi,

I am looking at Solaris and ZFS as being the possible future of our file store for users.

We have around 3TB (40million files) of data to transfer to ZFS from Netware 6.5 NSS volumes.

What is the best way to do this?

I have tried running utilities like richcopy (son of robocopy) , teracopy, fastcopy from a Windows client mapped to the Netware server via NCP and the Solaris server via Samba.
In all tests the copy very quickly failed, rendering the Solaris server unusable. I imagine this has to do with the utilities expecting a destination NTFS filesystem, and ZFS combined with Samba does not fit the bill.

I have tried running the old rsync client from Netware, but this does not seem to talk to Solaris rsyncd.

As well as NCP, Netware has the ability to export its NSS volumes as a CIFS share.

I have tried mounting a CIFS share of the Netware volume on Solaris...but Solaris as far as I am aware does not support mount -t smbfs as this is Linux only. You can mount smb:// from the Gui (Nautilus), but this does not help a great deal. I was hoping to run maybe Midnight Commander, but I presume that I would need a valid smb share to the Netware volume from the command line?

I really want to avoid the idea of staging on say NTFS first, then from NTFS to ZFS. A two part copy would take forever. It needs to be direct.

BTW..I am not bothered about ACL's or quota. These can be backed up from Netware and reapplied with ZFS/chown/chmod commands.

A wild creative though did occur to me as follows -

Opensolaris, unlike Solaris, has its CIFS kernel addition, and hence smb mounts from the command line (I presume), but I am not happy running opensolaris in production.So maybe I could mount the Netware NSS volume as a CIFS share on opensolaris (as a staging server), copy all the data to a ZFS pool locally, and the do a send receive to Solaris 10.......

Maybe not...

I suppose there is FTP, if I can get it to work on Netware.

I really need a utility with full error checking, and that can be left unattended.


Any ideas?