Manually Migrating Files

You can manually premigrate and migrate files on a migration client from the command line. Use manual migration when the filesystem is full or nearly full, for example, after you receive a Migration Attention notification. First, you premigrate the files using the nsrpmig command, then you migrate the files using the nsrmig command. Migrating large files provides the most benefit because it frees the most local disk space.

A file must be premigrated before it can be migrated.

To premigrate a file manually, enter the following command:

# nsrpmig -s server-name -b pool -g group path

• The -b and -g options are not required. If you do not specify these options, the Migration resource defaults are used.

• If you do not specify a path, the current directory is used.

After you have premigrated a file, migrate it manually by entering the following command:

# nsrmig -s server-name path

If you do not specify a path, the current directory is used. Migration continues until the filesystem capacity reaches the low water mark specified in the Migration resource.

Refer to the nsrpmig and nsrmig man pages for more details about these two commands.