I'm having a problem here I'm not sure how to solve, so I hope someone else have done the same (and succeeded :)
I have an old smb server ('tux') which is ancient (both in software and hardware) and can't handle the load. This machine is running version 2.2.3a-14.1 (Debian GNU/Linux woody) with 'character set = ISO8859-1'.
The new smb server ('bella') runs samba version 3.0.10-1 (Debian GNU/Linux sarge) and is fully UTF-8 enabled...
Now, all files from tux must somehow - this is the main problem - be moved to bella. I can't mount the disk from tux in bella for two reasons:
- bella is using a very limited IDE interface which can't find the disk (Dell PowerEdge 1800). - Because of the differences in NLS (?), any copy from one disk to another will make the file names not to show up correctly on the windows clients.
Same problem (last one) with NFS. The only way I could
find is to SMB mount tux on bella and just copy the files (with 'find | cpio'). This works fine, exept the
file owner and group doesn't match (root is mounting,
root is owning all files).
I went through with this, hoping I could write a script that sets owner/group of the files on bella. But this seemed more difficult than anticipated. Because of the differences in NLS, the filenames won't match!
Creating a list of filenames on both machines, and diffing those two files will give me:
-./shares/delade/Bilder/Jobb bilder/F�r�arna/Mvc00019.jpg +./shares/delade/Bilder/Jobb bilder/FAArAA�arnMvc0001919.jpg
I hope this goes through correctly, but the line which starts with '-' is located on 'tux' and the line which starts with '+' is located on 'bella'. The problem is that the file names don't match betwen the two, so I can't take a list from tux, and just use that name for 'chown' on bella...
There are QUITE (haven't counted, but the diff is huge) a lot of these changes, so catching all characters and do a translation will take ages.
And, another thing that looks weird is that some file
names don't seem to differ at all(!):
+./shares/delade/PPV rapporter/020703 �rgryte - �rebro.xls -./shares/delade/PPV rapporter/020703 �rgryte - �rebro.xls
Anyone that have done something like this before and have a pointer/script to share?
One solution may be to rsync -az all the files, then copy the old tdbs across? not sure if they will just "upgrade themselves" - it might be an idea to upgrade tux to 3.0.10 to get the tdbs the same, then dump them across, the tdbs from tux should contain the username maps, and bella will then recognise the correct users...
Not tried it like that, but i have moved files from one server to another with rsync and dumped tdbs and it worked (the samba versions were the same though, and it was in an AD environment with winbind, so I guess the mappings were SID > samba user.
Not sure if that helps, but its an idea!
Cheers,
H
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