Use Of Sms To Copy Data; New Attrib Command For Oes Linux; Creation Dates Change From Netware To Linux; Migrating Macintosh Files From Netware To Linux - Novell SERVER CONSOLIDATION MIGRATION TOOLKIT 1.2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-2007 Administration Manual

8.2.1 Use of SMS to Copy Data

The Server Consolidation Utility uses Storage Management Services (SMS) as its file copy engine
to copy data from NetWare servers to OES Linux servers. Using SMS preserves as many of the
NetWare trustee rights and file/directory attributes as possible.

8.2.2 New attrib Command for OES Linux

If you copy files from a NetWare source server that have the Delete Inhibit attribute set, the files
cannot be deleted from the destination NSS volume on an OES Linux server using the standard
Linux or Windows utilities.
Novell has provided a new attrib command for OES Linux that lets you remove the Delete Inhibit
attribute, as well as set or modify other supported NetWare attributes on Linux. For more
information, enter attrib -h to view the online help.

8.2.3 Creation Dates Change from NetWare to Linux

After copying files from a NetWare source server to an OES Linux destination server, the creation
dates for those files change to today's date rather than the date the files were originally created.
Linux doesn't provide a Creation Date field for file systems, so NCP Server displays the current
date.

8.2.4 Migrating Macintosh Files from NetWare to Linux

If the Server Consolidation Utility encounters files with Macintosh* resource forks (supported in
early versions of NCP), the resource forks are not copied to the Linux server. However, if you use
Macintosh-based backup/restore tools that use AppleTalk* Filing Protocol (AFP) when migrating
Macintosh files to a Linux server, you won't lose any of the Macintosh-specific metadata.
8.2.5 NFS Name Space Required when Copying Data from TFS
on NetWare to NSS on Linux
If you need to transfer data from a traditional NetWare file system (non-NSS) volume on NetWare to
an NSS volume on OES Linux, you must first install NFS name space support on the traditional
NetWare volume.
Without the NFS name space loaded, the Server Consolidation Utility file copy fails with an error
message indicating there is not enough disk space.
8.2.6 Disable Server Consolidation Utility File and Folder
Comparison
Novell recommends that you do not enable the Compare Files and Folders verification when
copying data from NetWare to Linux. If you do enable this check, you should expect to see many
errors reported in the log file, because of the inherent differences in how Linux stores file system
data.
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