Consolidating Data from NetWare Servers
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WARNING:
Do not use this option in projects that involve consolidating data from two separate
volumes or folders on the source server into a single volume or folder on the destination server.
When the synchronization check compares the copied data to what exists in the first volume or
folder, it will delete everything that was copied from the second. The same process occurs when
comparing the copied data for the second volume or folder, and you end up with no copied data
remaining in the destination volume or folder.
File Comparison
In the File Comparison dialog box, you have the option to compare files and folders between the
source and destination servers after the copy process completes. Selecting
Yes
compares the
following information between the source and destination files and folders:
Names
Dates
Sizes
Attributes
Trustees
Owners
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(Conditional) If you do not want to compare source and destination files after the copy process,
select
No
and then click
Next
. Skip to
“File Date Filters” on page 48
.
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(Conditional) If you selected
Yes
, you have the option to do a binary (byte-by-byte) comparison
of the files after the copy process completes. This option gives the greatest assurance that two
files are identical, but it takes longer to complete.
If you want to perform a binary comparison of the files that were copied, select
Binary (byte-
by-byte) comparison
.
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(Conditional) If you are seeing errors about files having different Rename inhibit (Di) and
Delete inhibit (Ri) attributes after the comparison, you can disable the comparison of these
attributes by deselecting
Compare Ri/Di attributes on read-only files
.
The reason for these errors is that the Novell Client version 4.9x does not automatically set the
Di or Ri attributes when copying Read-only files, whereas the Server Consolidation Utility
does. So if you have copied Read-only files to the source server using the Novell Client, they
are marked Read-only but the Di and Ri attributes are not set by the Client. If you subsequently
use the Server Consolidation Utility to copy these files to another server, the utility sets the Di
and Ri attributes of all Read-only files on the destination server, as it should.
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Click
Next
.
IMPORTANT:
Novell recommends that you do not enable file comparison when copying files
from NetWare to OES Linux servers. Many differences exist between the file and folder attributes
supported on NetWare and those supported on Linux. Because of these differences, you would
expect to see a large number of errors reported in a file comparison.
Summary of Contents for Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit 1.2
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