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July 13, 2006

how to do copy from filer to another filer

Filed under: unix, NetApp, storage

Actually there are few ways to copy data from filer to another filer.

1) using snapmirror
this method is easily using filerview but need license , so might be expensive. Easily to maintain and the data can be sync automatically.

2) using rsync, so you might need to run with script. What you need to do is mount the location of the filer and destination of the filer inside any server. Then create rsync script and run it as cronjobs.

3) using ndmcopy - this is very simple and easily to used for single data movement. I’ll show you how to do.
Telnet filerA (destination) :

filerA> ndmpcopy -sa root:password filerB:/vol/volname/qtree filerA:/vol/volname/qtree

Telnet filerB (source) :

filerB> ndmpcopy -da root:password filerB:/vol/volname/qtree filerA:/vol/volname/qtree

p/s: some user call filer or netapp hostsname.

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