User manual NOVELL FILE SYSTEM FACTORY 1.2.1 ADMINISTRATION

[. . . ] Novell File System Factory 1. 2. 1 ADMINISTRATION GUIDE August 30, 2005 www. novell. com Legal Notices Condrey Consulting Corporation makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this documentation, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Condrey Consulting Corporation reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. Also, Condrey Consulting Corporation makes no representations or warranties with respect to any software, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Condrey Consulting Corporation reserves the right to make changes to any Condrey Consulting Corporation software product described herein, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. [. . . ] A Policy definition allows the Administrator to specify when (or if) the disk space owned by an object is to be automatically deleted when the object is deleted from the Directory. There are three choices: Choice Description Never File System FactoryTM never deletes the disk space owned by objects in containers associated with this Policy. Immediately File System FactoryTM deletes the disk space owned by objects in containers associated with this Policy as soon as the objects are deleted from the Directory. Deferred N days File System FactoryTM deletes the disk space owned by objects in containers associated with this Policy but allows the Administrator to delay the deletion for a specified amount of time after the objects are deleted from the Directory. If the deletion management attributes of a given policy are changed and deletes being governed are pending on the File System FactoryTM process list, the administrator may option to have those delete events modified to conform to the latest attributes. For example, suppose a policy is configured to defer deletes for 30 days and there are 400 deletes pending because of this policy. If the policy is changed to defer deletes for 45 Novell File System FactoryTM Administrator's Guide © 2002-2005 Condrey Consulting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 44 days, the administrator will be prompted for approval to modify the 400 pending deletes so that each of them adheres to the new 45 day policy. Novell File System FactoryTM Administrator's Guide © 2002-2005 Condrey Consulting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 45 12 Backfill Operations In some cases, it may be necessary to retroactively apply a given policy to existing users and file systems. Or it may be necessary to perform some administrative corrective action or operation on a large set of users. File System FactoryTM collectively refers to this type of operation as a "Backfill". A backfill operation is issued through the File System FactoryTM web interface. Also available from the backfill operation page, a diagnostic consistency check report can be run. These reports can help determine what backfill options need to be run against a given group or container. You may perform a backfill operation against a container, a group, or an individual user object. Backfill operations against a group will pull users from the group membership. Backfill operations against a container will pull all users in the given container as well as all subordinate containers. Each user object is analyzed and worked with independently, regardless of whether the backfill is initiated via container, group, or directly against an individual user. Novell File System FactoryTM Administrator's Guide © 2002-2005 Condrey Consulting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 46 Backfill Operations There are several operations available to the administrator issuing a backfill request: Backfill Operation Full Backfill (suboption "Enforce Paths") Result A full analysis of each user is performed. The applicable policy for the user (if any) is determined and applied. In applying the policy, users without home directories will have one provisioned for them according to the policy. Pre-existing user home directories will be cataloged for management by File System FactoryTM. [. . . ] In a flash, all of her users will have managed disk storage on the network where they can be productive for the next eight months. Part 2: Eight months later, Ann has her new cluster and SAN installed. She should then modify her Policy that she defined in Part 1 above by adding path definitions so that it points to the SAN-connected cluster. Finally, she should run a full backfill operation against the user containers using the "Enforce Path" option. [. . . ]