home directories migrations and retain quota

[ranj]

Hi All

 

 

 

Hoping if someone can assist with an issue I am having with migrating home shares to a CIFS share using Quotas. I am currently migrating home directories from a Windows servers to create a CIFS share on a NetApp but I am assuming the same applies regardless of where the destination is. The NetApp CIFS shares works very similar to any newer Windows based file server.

 

I have tested migrating home shares using Robocopy to ensure permissions are retained and the good news is this part works ok. I have enforced user quotas on the CIFS share I have created for Home directories however once the data moves over and I map the CIFS share to a Windows client it doesn't seem to pick up the quota for the existing files already in the share, it does however add to the quota if I add any new files into it.

 

So I created a 100mb quota and migrated one of home directories over which was fine but the quota in Windows showed 100mb free of 100mb. Once I filled it up with 5 X 20mb files it then activated the quota and it was full.

 

 

Is it by design that the quota wont work for existing files? I am assuming this is because of the way the ownership of the way the robocopy job is run? is there a anyway around this? Have others been able to migrate data and still keep the quotas intact?

 

Any advice on this would be most appreciated.

 

Thanks

[3s-gtech]

You may need to migrate Ownership info for this to work, as Ownership is needed on Windows servers for FSRM quotas. That's copied across with Robocopy by using the

/COPY:DATSOU

or

/COPYALL

attributes. You can retroactively change the Owner info using chown.exe for batch processing.

[ranj]

You may need to migrate Ownership info for this to work, as Ownership is needed on Windows servers for FSRM quotas. That's copied across with Robocopy by using the

/COPY:DATSOU

or

/COPYALL

attributes. You can retroactively change the Owner info using chown.exe for batch processing.

 

Fantastic, I can confirm I have tried this and it works Thank you.

 

I used the /copy:DATSOU switch.