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Consolidating Data from NetWare Servers
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Consolidating Data from NetWare
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After you have completed the prerequisite procedures and reviewed the pertinent information in
Chapter 3, “Installing the Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit,” on page 27 , you are ready to
proceed with your NetWare
®
consolidation project.
To perform a NetWare consolidation project, complete the following tasks covered in this section:
1. Understand NetWare Server Consolidation Issues (page 41)
2. Launch Server Consolidation Utility and Create a Project File (page 42)
3. Select a Source and Destination Tree (page 43)
4. Model Your Consolidation Project (page 43)
5. Perform Pre-Copy Verifications (page 45)
6. Additional Steps for Tree-to-Tree Consolidations (page 50)
7. Run the Consolidation (page 53)
In addition, this section contains information on the following optional tasks:
1. Consolidating NDPS Printer Agents (page 54)
2. Consolidating Data to or from a NetWare 5.1 Cluster (page 56)
3. Consolidating Data to Novell Branch Office (page 56)
4. Consolidating Data from NetWare 4 Servers (page 59)
5. Server-Based Processing (page 60)
If you are copying data from NetWare to Open Enterprise Server (OES) for Linux, review the
information in
Chapter 8, “Consolidating Data to OES Linux,” on page 73 .
6.1 Understand NetWare Server Consolidation
Issues
Before running a consolidation project in a NetWare/eDirectory
TM
environment, be sure you have
prepared your server as described in Section 5.2, “Prepare the Source and Destination Servers,” on
page 36 .
You should also be aware of the issues discussed in this section.
6.1.1 Open Files Cannot Be Copied
The Novell
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Server Consolidation Utility cannot copy files that are open and currently in use.
There is one exception to this rule. NSS has a feature called File Copy on Write. This permits a file
that is being changed to be accessed in the same state as it was in when it was last closed by all
processes.