Hi,

I currently have one share(CIFS) on a Celerra that houses our home folders. The used space is approx. 900 GB. We are running out of physical resources so in order to prevent users from storing too much in their home folders we would like to enable qoutas. The filesystem where the home folders reside is shared with other resources. So a qouta tree for the Home folder is neccessary. There is one Home share and each user have a folder, permissions for each home folder is handled by file system permissions. Ourr game plan is the following

1. By using emcopy we will copy all files from \\celerra\home$ to E:\home using the following switches

emcopy \\celerra\home$ E:\home /o /s /d /q /c /secfix /stream /purge /r:1 w:2 /log:C:\copy.log

2. During our maintenance window we will change the permission on home$ so that only one account has read permissions and disconnect all active sessions and re-run the above emcopy command

3. When the final sync has completed we will delete the Home directory on the celerra. Recreate it as a quota ree

4. Run emcopy again but switch place on source and destination path

Anyone with previous experience of this kind of operation who has any good-to-know information?

Do we have the neccessary switches to emcopy in order to keep all of our filesystem permissions? By looking at the tests i have done it seems like permissions are fine

Does it take long time to delete the a large folder structure? Does the Celerra have to traverse through the whole folder structure?

cheers