On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:52 AM, Justin Krisko wrote:
And because of this, migrating from SFM to SMB is difficult for users
with a
lot of legacy data, particularly Quark files that link to a lot of
other
files. This is close to impossible if you still have OS9 users using
the
same share. It would help if the Apple SMB client was a little nicer in
dealing with forked data. The Admitmac SMB client is much better at
this.
Extreme Z-IP is a good option if you can afford it.
I suggest anyone considering moving to SMB connections do a LOT of
testing
with their users...
The best way I have found to migrate this is to copy the data from a
SFM sharepoint to a SMB one. That way the Finder splits the forks as
needed. Like you note though, the problem is with large archives of
files. My largest SFM client has several TB spread out across 20 or so
SFM shares. It's simply not a feasible plan because of disk space, and
other reasons with some custom software, so they are going to EZIP
instead.
Josh
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Breaking my server to save yours.
