Migrating placeholders with FSA Utility
Hi All,
I am looking for information about migrating placeholders with FSA Utility. Our file servers have a lot of mixed data, lots of folders where many files will archive, but a few wont (.exe's, etc.). I would like to move all of the data in a share from one disk, to another disk on another server. That data includes FSA shortcuts, and actual files. How do I get both over, while maintaining the shortcuts?
FSA Utility has a switch to migrate placeholders (-pm parameter), which sounds like what I need to do, but I need to make sure it migrates it with/alongside the non archived files as well. If I just run a robocopy or something to move all the files from one to another, without involving EV, it seems to recall all the files, then copy them un-archived.
It seems like I could just delete the archives, copy the files, then re-apply the archiving rules against the destination but that seems sloppy and inefficient...is there a way to do what I need to do?
Check out this whitepaper:
You can run robocopy with the /XA:O switch to prevent it from recalling archived files. So robocopy with /XA:O for non-archived files and FSAUtility -pm for the placeholders.
You don't say what version of EV you are on, but ensure you are on 9.0.4 with the latest CHFs or 10.0.3 prior to running FSAUtility.
Darren
