topic Migrating individuals home directories in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-individuals-home-directories/m-p/48475#M11372 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is the best way to migrate individual home directory from one filer to another filer?</P><P>I have users who are in EMEA, and APAC, im trying to migrate some users who no longer live in those geo sites to my filer in santa clara.</P><P>anyone knows what the best practice for this is?</P><P>thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:43 GMT joeycitrix 2025-06-05T07:24:43Z Migrating individuals home directories https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-individuals-home-directories/m-p/48475#M11372 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is the best way to migrate individual home directory from one filer to another filer?</P><P>I have users who are in EMEA, and APAC, im trying to migrate some users who no longer live in those geo sites to my filer in santa clara.</P><P>anyone knows what the best practice for this is?</P><P>thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-individuals-home-directories/m-p/48475#M11372 joeycitrix 2025-06-05T07:24:43Z Re: Migrating individuals home directories https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-individuals-home-directories/m-p/48480#M11373 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If volume snapmirror and qtree snapmirror are not an option (unless each user has their own qtree - not a best practice...but if you can group by qtree it might work), then ndmpcopy works very well.&nbsp; It supports levels 0,1 and 2 so you can do two incrementals after the baseline.&nbsp; It leaves a "restore_symboltable" file when done that you can clean up later.&nbsp; Depending on the host type you can also host replicate...we use robocopy (free) and securecopy (license fee) often on Windows and rsync on Unix/Linux.&nbsp; VFM is a great tool too for migrations but end of life now.&nbsp; The advantage of ndmpcopy is it is NetApp to NetApp and doesn't need a host...</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:16:27 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-individuals-home-directories/m-p/48480#M11373 scottgelb 2009-08-20T20:16:27Z